What piece of PC hardware fails the most for you?

[aphex]

sound cards like to fry for me

 

[erub]

Microsoft Intellimi Explorers

Heck, I could care less, its nice to get a new one every few months

 

[JC]

floppy drives are the worst, then CDROMs

JC

 

[Thegonagle]

CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM drives, 1 each in 2 years, but my old expensive (okay, it was $150) NEC 8X CD-ROM is still cranking in my linux project box.

Doh! More like 2 years or less.

 

[yakko]

It is a tie between mice and HDDs. 3 of each. One CPU and one motherboard.

 

[KingofBladez]

Trackballs

That was back in my UT days

 

[pulse8]

The only piece of hardware that has ever crapped out on me was an old 2GB Western Digital hard drive. They replaced it in a couple of days and that was that.

 

[Freejack2]

Fans

 

[yakko]

Forgot to add that I have had one CPU fan fail. It had nothing to do with the dead CPU though. I also had on video card fan fail.

 

[d1abolic]

Power supplies! There was a time when i lost 3 in 6 months!

 

[Jugernot]

I've been building PCs for over 6 years and I would guess hard drives are biggest problem.

 

[minendo]

<< none of it. >>

 

[Valafar]

mobos

 

[Jerboy]

printer.

constant nozzle plugging

 

[KingA21]

RAM

 

[crab]

Monitors

 

[SiLEighTy]

my vote would be hard drives.

 

[Jagoff]

CD-ROMs! Ive gone through quite a few... and 2 mice... nothing else has failed on me

 

[mattyrug]

Monitors, until I spent the dough on a 'real' Monitor (Trinitron TFT "17)
Lately- Sound Cards, I 'Loaned' the same one I've had for 3 years (a cheapie Yamaha YMF-724) to the Radio Station I work at 3 months ago, and I've been through about one very other week. :|

 

[coolkev16]

soundblaster sound cards seem to be the root of all problems for me. I am not trying to bad mouth them but they have been the cause of my system not booting up properly. Now, I must tell you that these soundblaster cards are old. I'm talking about before the Soundblaster live! series came out. I had one so old that there was a volume dial on the card itself.

 

[HappyFace]

Floppy drives! Good thing I have a ton under the bed.

 

[JoeKing]

Printers......OMFG I can't believe how unlucky I am with these bastards. I can put together a brand new computer in under 15 min but I touch a printer and somtihng almost always goes wrong, I've been through just about every brand.

NEC (2)
HP (3)
LexMark (1)
Canon (1)
Epson (1)
Dot Matrix no names (5)
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No Joke I've been through 13 printers! Guess my 14th is the lucky one it's a Lexmark 3200 I got for $20. Been working fine for over a year.....damn tho only one year!

 

[ElFenix]

geforce 256... i've killed 3 so far.

 

[jcovercash]

Cheap @$$ Cd rom dirves are what I have the most rouble out of. Finnaly I broke down and bought a decent DVD drive and everything works fine now

Josh

 

[Fjive]

my Abit BE6-2 (w/ Highpoint Controller)....it didnt really fail....but it gave me enough trouble already....
very unstable .... cant wait to get rid of it...