End of year thread: Tally up the dead parts!

[sbp]

Please list the PC parts that have died on you or have been killed {accidently of course http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/wink2.gif}

Came down one morning to find my 19" NEC FP950 monitor was dead and out of warranty by a few weeks.
Talked with NEC on the phone. The guy said even though the monitor was out of warranty by 7 weeks they would still consider it under warranty and do a cross-shipment. Basically they shipped me a refurbished FP950 and I shipped back the old dead one. The only costs to me were shipping the old dead FP950 back.

[madthumbs]

Epox 8k7a and athlon XP1700. Possibly due to home electrical problem or lightening, but 8k7a's were dying left and right for a while.

[Nephilim]

Originally posted by sbp
Came down one morning to find my 19" NEC FP950 monitor was dead and out of warranty by a few weeks.
Talked with NEC on the phone. The guy said even though the monitor was out of warranty by 7 weeks they would still consider it under warranty and do a cross-shipment. Basically they shipped me a refurbished FP950 and I shipped back the old dead one. The only costs to me were shipping the old dead FP950 back.

Wow, that was really cool of them.

[Riff]

My floppy drive seems to have died from lack of use. The door jammed shut and I had to mash the eject button to get it to relase. Now Windows thinks every floppy disk it sees is unformatted. Not a big deal since floppy drives are less than ten bucks.

Cracked an Athlon XP 2800+ chip trying to install a retention clip heatsink. Got an RMA and tried installing it with a swiftech MCX462-U screw-in heatsink. That one didn't work even with two installation attempts. Got yet another RMA and also ordered a second A7N8X motherboard thinking that I must have fried the first one. Got a shop to install it and put an end to the curse. I can't count the motherboard as a casualty because the shop tested out the first mobo and said that it worked.

[PenguinJim]

It's been a good year for me....

1 dead A7N8X nForce2 mobo (waiting on RMA replacement)

And my Microsoft Intellimouse wheel stopped 'wheeling'. But I get free replacements from Daddy :D

Happy New Year y'all :) (well in 9 mins anyway ;))

[EciDemon]

My old samsung 32x cdrom died a few months ago, Dang thing almost ate my new Half life blue shift cd!
The cdrom had been pretty bad for some time, it didnt like my cdr´s, so I only used it for retail cds (since it was faster than my burner anyway). I was just waiting for the day that it would die on me.

When it did fail i was just to install Halflife blue shift, (bought the same day) and it just started to spin real fast and you could hear this scratching sound :eek: and it would not eject when i pressed the button, I rebooted to see if it helped but it didnt, so I had to force it open. I then tested it again with a nother cd and it did the same. So I threw it away and got a dvd rom insted.

[StealthHawk]

NEC 12x cdrw

[thcdru2k]

microsoft intellimouse optical..banged it on the table one to many times playing ut.

[Switch]

Acer 52x CDrom (last acer product I will ever buy:rolleyes: )
HP 2x2x24 Burner (lasted for years but died at a very bad time)
GeForce3 Ti200

[LORD-eX-Bu]

I am glad to say that I didn't have any major hardware die on me this year. Only things that died, were 2 old pentium 3 motherboards and one Pentium 3 700 Mhz Coppermine CPU. No big deal, I have 2 more computers on their way as we speak. That will bring the total of working computers in my house to six, and dead or offline computers to 3. ;) :D

[Matthyahuw]

Plexie 12x burner...

MS Thumb Trackball

[poursoul]

2 X 1Ghz TBirds (It was an accident i tell you!)
Sony 4X2X8X
Old Slot 1 Mobo (ASUS i tink)

[Switch]

(seems to have been a bad year for CDRW's)

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by Switch
(seems to have been a bad year for CDRW's)

either that or a lot of them are just poorly made :mad:

[EciDemon]

I know for fact that the samsung 32x was really crappy and porly made (I think there were some creative cdroms based on the same model). At work they had one of these insalled in every teacher computer (lack of better word). They were even worse than mine and sounded terrible when using them. So I was rather supriced that my cdrom lasted as long as it did.

Now I have a samsung dvd player (I got it on my birthday so I could not choose my self) and it works great. When I got it I looked at it and could not help but think of the old cdrom who died on me just a month earlier, thinking this one would be rather poor too. Happy to say that I was wrong.

[Firelord-OCHW]

Hmmm 2 Inno3D GeForce 4 Ti4200s :D

Not as bad as last year, 3 EPoX 8K7A+s, 1 1.33TBird and 2 PSU :o

[Smokey]

My AthlonXp 1800+ stopped working Christmas day :mad:

[ASCI Blue]

15 gig IBM GXP 75 hd, replaced with 80 gig Seagate Barracuda.

[Riptide]

I haven't had anything outright die on me but there were a few fiascos I had to endure:

ASUS P4S8X (SiS 648 chipset) - may this item rot in hell forever. Defective excrement and I was not the only poor chum that had to find this out the hard way. Shame on you ASUS - the P4PE is a great board but your armor has a ***** in it now.

IBM Ultrastar 36LZX (SCSI 160, 10K RPM) - original drive and MULTIPLE RMA drives keep failing the IBM drive defender SMART test after running in my system for a couple weeks. I have finally given up after the third replacement drive stopped passing SMART after a few weeks. Flashed the BIOS on my Adaptec 19160 controller just in case it was the cause of the issues but so far it hasn't helped. IBM finally sent me a Ultrastar 73LZX but it ALSO started failing SMART after a few weeks. WTF??? My Seagate Cheetah X15 has been a dream and passes the Seatools tests every time I run them. Doesn't make sense...

[vampireuk]

My keyboard.....

not bad at all:D

[darkmiasma]

my keyboard

[ASCI Blue]

Originally posted by ohoffman10
I haven't had anything outright die on me but there were a few fiascos I had to endure:

ASUS P4S8X (SiS 648 chipset) - may this item rot in hell forever. Defective excrement and I was not the only poor chum that had to find this out the hard way. Shame on you ASUS - the P4PE is a great board but your armor has a ***** in it now.

IBM Ultrastar 36LZX (SCSI 160, 10K RPM) - original drive and MULTIPLE RMA drives keep failing the IBM drive defender SMART test after running in my system for a couple weeks. I have finally given up after the third replacement drive stopped passing SMART after a few weeks. Flashed the BIOS on my Adaptec 19160 controller just in case it was the cause of the issues but so far it hasn't helped. IBM finally sent me a Ultrastar 73LZX but it ALSO started failing SMART after a few weeks. WTF??? My Seagate Cheetah X15 has been a dream and passes the Seatools tests every time I run them. Doesn't make sense...


Guess IBM's ****ty quality extended beyond the GXP 60 and 75. After a horrid run with the 60, they tried to fix it with the 75, after a short time the GXP 75's that were 30 gigs and larger were recalled by IBM. I wish I went with Seagate in the beginning but live and learn. :D

[lagadu]

Originally posted by PenguinJim
And my Microsoft Intellimouse wheel stopped 'wheeling'.
wow, that exactly what happened to me some weeks ago :D

[fastguy94416]

I had a soyo k7v dragon+ and a kt7-raid die on me. Would not have been too bad, but i could not get replacements for them, and i went 4 months without gaming :mad:

[The Baron]

Well.... nothing! :p

At least not really... replaced some stuff because of incompatibility (NIC or two because they didn't work with VNC under XP)... but I don't think anything 'sploded.