Your 2015 computer disasters

Andygully · 16 Feb 2015 at 20:20

None this year yet but im changing my motherboard in the next few days

haha

MrMD · 16 Feb 2015 at 21:39

Still feeling salty at Nvidia and the 970 nonsense.

Also an akasa fan 5 fan splitter screwed me and overvolted all my fans,defiantly damaged/broke 2 of them

MasterOC · 17 Feb 2015 at 02:48

X99 pro board died ... Obvious Poor RMA support , having to wait 28 days just for Ocuk to replace it, great support from them but cack from asus.

Wife's gigabyte Z97m board died ...

Gtx 970 fiasco ... Now own 2 980s .

pryere · 17 Feb 2015 at 10:50

zola25 said:
My long serving Asus P8Z68-V Gen 3 motherboard gave up the ghost, predictably just as the 3 year warranty ended.

On the bright side I figured I may as well move to a newer socket anyway

Mine is nearly 3 years old, what were the problems it had?

TwsT · 17 Feb 2015 at 10:56

Installed windows 10

CSGO crashes

Everything else works

HeX · 17 Feb 2015 at 11:23

Got home last night and my Tri-X 290 has decided to die, with no warning what so ever. It was perfectly fine in the morning, went to work, came home and that was it no boot 9/10 times and garbled fonts all over the place when it did.

Card isn't even a year old. RMA fun times ahead!

Rocking a beastly HD6570 until it's replaced...

Josh · 17 Feb 2015 at 11:42

Not really a disaster but my sons GPU (270X) has a slight rattle from the plastic fan shroud.

Only happens now and again, so made a Lego tower to even out the weight of the card on the PCI lane, he thinks I am now a master builder.

Kids aye

D.Roberts · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:18

HeX said:
Got home last night and my Tri-X 290 has decided to die, with no warning what so ever. It was perfectly fine in the morning, went to work, came home and that was it no boot 9/10 times and garbled fonts all over the place when it did.

Card isn't even a year old. RMA fun times ahead!

Rocking a beastly HD6570 until it's replaced...

Thats sucks man

Is the RMA done VIA OCUK if so cant see it being that hard?

HeX · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:27

D.Roberts said:
Thats sucks man

Is the RMA done VIA OCUK if so cant see it being that hard?

Yeah through OCUK, got the RMA number already, will get it boxed up and returned tomorrow. Hopefully doesn't take too long to get sorted

Hagar · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:30

Still early in the year but I am swapping my case and reverting back to air this weekend so plenty of scope.

D.Roberts · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:56

HeX OCUK RMA are amazeing.

Only ever had a few problems every thing was sorted out super fast.

jetpaczx · 17 Feb 2015 at 15:12

1TB Drive died I was very lucky to get my music off it ...

Grimley · 17 Feb 2015 at 16:33

My Z87 board was running fine with some 1333 ram, I acquired some 1600 MHZ sticks & it point blank refused to boot up on XMP settings. I had to put the old RAM back in & boot up on manual speed settings (lower speed at that) before it decided to boot with the new RAM. I've now got a small problem with a 2nd hand 500GB Samsung F3 HDD. S.M.A.R.T. errors, likely to fail soon it said. Currently deciding on what size HDD to replace it with.

Hyburnate · 17 Feb 2015 at 16:36

The only 'disaster' I've had is acquiring a Sky+ box only to find out the hard drive was a 160GB IDE

I love Sky boxes people don't want anymore

The drives are actually okay... for free

Doogles · 17 Feb 2015 at 19:36

Nothing but good for me as I upgraded from 8GB to 16GB

MrAnthony · 17 Feb 2015 at 21:25

Hyburnate said:
The only 'disaster' I've had is acquiring a Sky+ box only to find out the hard drive was a 160GB IDE

I love Sky boxes people don't want anymore The drives are actually okay... for free

Brother did exactly the same thing the other week. Didn't know what the connection was bless him. Only 40GB mind, so no real loss.

Justintime · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:02

My friend knocked over my NAS with 8 5TB hdds in it (drunk). Silverstone MITX 8 bay case, fell to the floor and every hdd reported back bad sectors. All less than 1yr old, warranty job and all sorted, case didn't even have a ding on it. My fault for having it on the edge of a table for testing but just could not eat the cost of 8 5tb disks. Lucky thing was they were not used for storage yet.

Also tried to destroy a really old Core 2 E6300 PC at work that my boss kept propping up and wouldn't upgrade for my co worker, pulled caps and even a mosfet, the thing worked for another month before we just decided to rip the BIOS chip out and shove it in back the wrong way round.

Justintime · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:11

Ohh forgot another one, have a dryer in the same storage room as my file server, wife decided to put it on without the front hose attached and the door closed. Entire pc was wet.. somehow everything survived.