Failing Components? Not Me!

[tasslex]

I was just wondering how often people in here have Hardware fail on them without warning. I have been working heavily with computers since 1994 and I have never in my life had a piece of hardware that I own fail on me, not even Cables. Am I just really lucky?


Oh, and knock on wood.

 

[bdcrisp]

The only piece of hardware that I had fail was a keyboard that i dropped a cup of coffee on

 

[Vegito]

Yeah, I had about 20 quantum HDs and a few, 3-4 WD and maxtor drives die on me.

 

[majewski9]

I had my video card go out! No reason other than it was crappy.

 

[Paulson]

Just had a western digital 40 gig hard drive die, earlier on, I had a quantum bigfoot 2.5 gig hard drive die on me also...

I also had a powersupply die on me once, but that's about it.

 

[Need4Speed]

the ide controller on my 382sx/25 failed on me about 9 years ago.
an conner 1.2gb drive got bad sectors 8 years ago.
the fan header on my soyo failed on me 3 years ago
i once received a DOA soyo mobo
an abit bf6 once lost some bios options

 

[VBboy]

Computer hardware always worked flawlessly for me and all others in this thread (AS IF):

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=500920

 

[majewski9]

I have had 5 or 6 modems over the years on the same computer!

 

[IcemanJer]

The only thing that failed on me was a 3Com 10/100 NIC.. Windows recognized it and installed the correct drivers and protocols, but the unit will refuse to communicate like it's supposed to.

 

[majewski9]

I think I have had bad luck!

 

[IcemanJer]

yeah.. computer parts are not supposed to fail..
but then again when you're working with hundres of systems, you're bound to see a number of failed parts.

 

[Zagloba]

I fried my 486-100DX once....and a floppy drive twice. One just two days ago but that wasn't my fault!! The manual for the MSI K7T turbo has a picture of a jumper for clearing and keeping CMOS reversed. SO, I had the jumper set to clear CMOS (I thought it was the otherway around) pressed power, nothing. Switched the jumper to clear, thinking I shouldn't be doing this....Pressed power, evertyhing was fine...with the exception of my floppy....the light stays on, regardless of the cable orientation. Oh, well I could have been worse.....MUCH WORSE!

 

[NoReMoRsE]

My old ASTVision 5L 15" monitor died on me last year. I got a Samsung SyncMaster 750s 17" to replace it. Much happier with the 17", although sad that my trusty 15" died.

 

[TheGrandHooHa]

I have had 1 power supply stop working, and also, the fan on my GF2 Pro stopped working.

Other than that, no failures at all.

 

[cavingjan]

I had two monitors fail. A bunch of hard drives over the year have bit the big one. Plus the usual fans, mice and keyboards that simply wear out after a few years.

 

[Deanodarlo]

Never had a computer failure until yesterday, and then this thread pops up - and who here doesn't believe in fate?

My ELSA Geforce 2MX worked flawlessly for a month, and then I taxed it for the first time using unreal tournament.

A week later my system began locking-up and resetting itself over and over. Crapping myself, I started wondering what it was - power supply, m/b....... - replaced the MX with my old G200 (thank goodness I kept it!) and everything ran fine. Put the MX back in and the system freaks out.

The card must have had a weak component, as it went soon after being taxed. It wasn't overclocked either - the crappy memory on the card meant it wasn't worth o/c'ing.

The best part is I have to pay for the return postage, and wait 4-6 weeks for a repair/replacement. If I hadn't kept my old card I'd be done for.

 

[HGC]

I had a 21" monitor smell, smoke, and die just outside of warranty.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

I have had a floppy drive die (of old age) and a USRobotics Winmodem. I have helped other people that have had a CPU fail and several hard drives. It was funny about the hard drives though, I took all of them and formatted them and put them in other systems and they are running to this day (except for the one I accidentally slid off the top of my desk and hit solid on the tiled floor - that one's dead). I actually consider myself to be somewhat lucky (knock on wood) as far as computer component failure goes.