POLL: which hardware is most prone to failure in your experience

[Lifer]

for me, my top are:

optical drives - 6 broke
hard drives - 4
PSU - 3
mice - 2 ms opticals, 1 ball
NIC -2
CPU - fried 2 (user error)
motherboard - 2 (1 of which caught fire)
monitor - 2 CRT
floppy - 1


the most durable components have been the keyboard, case, RAM and video card all with no deaths

 

[bandana163]

Mice. About one each year.

 

[Quixfire]

Cables and cords

 

[tennisflip]

The only parts I've ever had to replace are optical drives.

 

[Abhi]

Floppy Disks!!

 

[Lonyo]

2 x DVD drive
1x PSU
2x mouse

I think that's it, I'm going to go optical drives.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

PSU - 1 exploding Antec
Motherboard - 1 ECS board
Vid cards - 2 misc

 

[Jeff7181]

Generic case fans... or fans in generic power supplies.
Oh yeah, and Maxtor hard drives =)

 

[Spoooon]

For me, monitors, since that's the only thing that has ever gone bad on me.

 

[Pocatello]

Microsoft optical mice, at least once a year.

 

[waylman]

this poll needs more options...seriously, is cases necessary?

 

[vi edit]

Hard drives

 

[eakers]

my powersupply is the only thing that has gone on this computer.

 

[Electric Amish]

I would say Hard Drives, but my experience says Power Supplies.

*touch wood* I've never had a HD fail on me, but I've gone through 2-3 power supplies.

 

[murphy55d]

i've only had a hard drive fail on me on it's own(IBM Deathstar), i've fried a stick of ram though. my fault, didn't have it in all the way.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: murphy55d
i've only had a hard drive fail on me on it's own(IBM Deathstar), i've fried a stick of ram though. my fault, didn't have it in all the way.

I even have an IBM "Deathstar" that's going strong.

I have had a stick of RAM go bad. I had forgotten that. I really need to get that RMA'd to Crucial.

 

[dullard]

Personally: I've had multiple monitors blow, one floppy drive, and two video cards (same make and model which later turns out that many people have the same problem).

At work: Maybe 10 monitors, one hard drive, and one video card.

With family/friends: 4 monitors, they all think their mouse is broken but I clean the wheels (not the ball) and it works just fine, and one USB hub.

Conclusion: monitors by far.

 

[Actaeon]

A case?

Optical Drives over here, I'd probally had 2 faultly ones. Had a floppy disk that failed as well...

 

[Anubis]

HD
then Mobo

obly 2 things ive ever had die on me

 

[InverseOfNeo]

printers for me

 

[ProviaFan]

Motherboards (by far), and monitors. The problem can probably be accounted for by my former habit of buying cheap components (such as PCChips aka PCCrap motherboards).

 

[pecel]

RAM and hard drive

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Fans, they're moving parts, cheaply made, and especially prone to dust.

 

[Budmantom]

3 cd burners died on me.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Abhi
Floppy Disks!!

What are those?

2 x power supplies
4 x motherboards
1 x CPU
1 x hard drive
1 x CD-RW