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Failing Components? Not Me!

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tasslex

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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. 😀
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!
 
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. 🙁
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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