Have you ever owned a computer that did EVERYTHING perfectly?

[Scouzer]

It is OK if it did EVERYTHING perfectly after installing new drivers. The point being it did EVERYTHING perfectly from then on.

I don't think any PC has no issues with ANYTHING. For example, my current laptop has a few quirks. The most irritating is it will lock up about 10% of the time when attempting to go into standby. It will also hard lock 10% of the time coming out of standby. A couple times it has come out of standby, but failed to turn the monitor back on. Pretty useless.

Also, when the computer is put into standby, then I unplug the mouse, then bring it back out of standby...it'll take 2 minutes before it realizes there is no mouse connected and enables the touch pad.

The other day it hard locked on boot up. Never happened again.

I also get that freaking EA error saying I don't have latest Direct X for their new games. Again, it can be worked around, but it's still more quirky things not everyone is afflicted by.

So, what say you?

 

[alpha88]

Yes, except for I get nv4_disp BSODs occassionally (which means, my answer is really No)

 

[Farmer]

The IBM X60s I'm on right now is about as perfect a computer as I have ever run in the past seven years (my old 486 was rock solid). Of course, the only reason I'm on the X60 is because my desktop is awaiting parts due to numerous difficulties.

 

[mchammer]

Yes since I run an IBM z-series.

 

[Farmer]

mchammer:

A Z-series laptop or a Z-series mainframe?!

 

[bob4432]

most machines i build run pretty close to perfect after the first month (after i get the quirks worked out and stress the sh!t out of them), including those that are o/ced. i routinley keep them defragged, registry cleaned up and am careful as to what goes on them.

the ibm t series work pretty good too.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Yeah, my current PC runs perfectly. No driver conflicts, random restarts, hourglasses, disk thrashing or anything of that sort. Computer starts up and the only thing in my system tray is the Local Area Connection icon. And this is an old computer and I don't use AV - just the Windows Firewall. Of course, a game crashes or locks up every once in a while but I blame the game there, not the computer (OS & hardware).

 

[Jeff7]

My C2D system is working quite nicely, with the exception of the TV tuner. It even POSTed on the first try.
Hauppauge's PVR-350 doesn't care for dual-core systems, and is prone to crashes and lockups.
Bought a MyHD MDP-130. It can't record to MPEG2, only AVI, lacks hardware encoding, and when I switch to fullscreen mode, the monitor gets its feed directly from the TV tuner card, at a horrible 60Hz. Other issues:
- When watching TV and loading a webpage, the TV image flickers whenever the CPU usage goes up. The TV tuner app is already set to high priority.
- Sound sync is horrible. It gets skewed by a full second after 1-2 minutes.
- I can't get the timeshifting to work.
- It seems to reset my channel memory at midnight.
- Sometimes it switches to digital mode and won't go back to analog.

I've got a tuner on the way based on ATI's Theater 550 chip. Hopefully it'll enable my computer to once again do everything perfectly.
Because other than that, this computer does everything I want it to do. It's fast, responsive, and it's got lots of disk space.

 

[imported_Tick]

Everything runs fine, except I need to get my graphics card RMA'd due to artifacting. So no, everything isn't really fine.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

My Asus S96J is the perfect laptop. I have ZERO problems with it.

 

[jackschmittusa]

When I build a rig, it isn't done until everything works. It even used to be a lot harder years ago than it is today.

 

[T9D]

Works close enough to perfect for a pleasant experience. But yes some quirks.

XP is so much nicer. Man 98 was a nightmare.

Right now the only thing that is wrong is my harddrives wont go into standby. They always stay on. I haven't really looked into it so I'm sure it could be fixed if I really cared. I just wanted to see how much noise they are making.

Also one other thing is that I can hear some noise through my speakers. Like when the processor is under load I can hear it. Can also hear a loud squeak from my mouse when I use it or scroll. Really annoying. Probabaly fixed with better motherboard or power supply.

So I guess it COULD be perfect if I really wanted to fine tune it or spend a little more money.


Oh yeah and if I turn my PC on and then turn on my monitor at just the wrong time after, the monitor wont detect the signal and go in stand by. Then I have to restart. But all I have to do is make sure I turn the monitor on first so it's never a problem really.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
My C2D system is working quite nicely, with the exception of the TV tuner. It even POSTed on the first try.
Hauppauge's PVR-350 doesn't care for dual-core systems, and is prone to crashes and lockups.
Bought a MyHD MDP-130. It can't record to MPEG2, only AVI, lacks hardware encoding, and when I switch to fullscreen mode, the monitor gets its feed directly from the TV tuner card, at a horrible 60Hz. Other issues:
- When watching TV and loading a webpage, the TV image flickers whenever the CPU usage goes up. The TV tuner app is already set to high priority.
- Sound sync is horrible. It gets skewed by a full second after 1-2 minutes.
- I can't get the timeshifting to work.
- It seems to reset my channel memory at midnight.
- Sometimes it switches to digital mode and won't go back to analog.

I've got a tuner on the way based on ATI's Theater 550 chip. Hopefully it'll enable my computer to once again do everything perfectly.
Because other than that, this computer does everything I want it to do. It's fast, responsive, and it's got lots of disk space.

I hope you aren't using the software that comes with the wintv card, because it is crap. I switched to Windows Media Center and haven't looked back.

 

[neutralizer]

Nope. There's usually something borked. Like currently, my machine just randomly craps due to sound issues with the Audigy. Fvcking buggy Creative drivers.

 

[Texun]

I've had 2 that I can think of that worked perfectly with zero problems. Both were Shuttle AN35N boards. One was pretty stock and the other had an XP2400, running a PVR250, 2 opticals, controller card, 3 hard drives, SB Live, Firewire\USB card and dual boot OS. That rig was a rock.

 

[Captante]

Just about every PC I've purchased or built has worked just about perfectly by the time I got through tweaking it, but the one whch stands out in my mind as NEVER having a single problem consisted of an Asus A7V333 (Via KT333) motherboard with Athlon XP 2100+, 2 x 512mb Mushkin PC2700 DDR, Visiontek Ti4600 gpu, Soundblaster Live PCI & 2 x Quantum fireball 15gb HD's on a Promise ATA-66 controller in a Wintec case with Antec 400 watt ATX psu .. that thing was just bulletproof for whatever reason & nothing else has ever been quite as stable, despite the fact that I ran it out of official spec at on a 333mhz fsb the entire time.

 

[BladeVenom]

When I make, upgrade, or reinstall everything usually works just fine until something gets out of date like drivers, directx, etc.

 

[wwswimming]

an AMD K-166 with Visual Basic 5 and Windows 95.

first Wintel computer that i liked more than a Mac.

long time ago, but for a moment in time, it did seem like the
title describes, perfect.

wouldn't run Vista though !

 

[funboy6942]

I have several I have built that does everything I ask of it without fail, lock ups, or any problems at all. When I do incounter a problem I troble shoot it and fix the problem. But been with the same hardware for about a year now and chugs along fine.

 

[Bob Anderson]

I built this computer (in my sig) in Nov. 2005 and it has worked perfectly since. I have not had any problems with it or any of the installed software at all. All the parts I bought on the net or locally all worked perfectly. I'm also one of the very few who have the nividea nforce4 hardware firewall working and working trouble free since day one. Never had a BSOD or any type of software conflict either.

-Bob, touching wood.

 

[pkrush]

Mine's been running pretty well since August 2005, but I've had to do a couple of repair installs of Windows after it repeatedly screwed up my sound and network drivers. Now, for some reason, I don't get the network icons in the taskbar anymore.

 

[Noema]

My current rig (in sig) works very well. I had some small GPU related issues when I first built it two years ago , but now that I have a 7800GS it hasn't crashed, BSOD or otherwise in almost a year. I've only installed XP twice (once when built, another time a year ago to repair a damaged registry).

The PSU did die two weeks ago but got a new one and everything runs as it should.

The only problem is that it's getting old and newer games won't run at maximum settings.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Nope, never. My current computer has a bunch of software issues.