End of year thread: Tally up the dead parts!

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:57 am

One Gigabyte matx i810 mb that I flashed and was flaky ever since, finally gave up on it.

One 566mz celeron that I sold, the guy said it worked once and died. returned

One 512mb stick of ddr that I sold and the guy said it died. returned

blade · Post by **blade** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 9:16 am

Killed an asus a7n8x when trying to remove the new very heavy swiftech heatsink. It was stuck and hit a capasitor that was right up against it once it came unstuck. The capasitor didn't come off, but was loose. It would only partially boot, then hang.

2 psu's from antec exploded. One did first time I turned it on, the other wasn't right, then blew about a week or so later. In the process they also killed 2 cmedia sound cards.

The psu problems probably contributed to killing a seagate hard drive.

I didn't kill but I did mame a 48x cheapo cdrw. I tried to overburn with it, it failed. But since then it'll only burn normally at 24x or under. If I try up to 48X. it takes hours.

That 7 items.

:;

Invisible Evil · Post by **Invisible Evil** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 12:03 pm

I fried a set of speakers playing my guitar through them
totally crashed a 30gb hard drive (still havnt figured that one out)
and got a little to happy with the ol dremel and a case.

jadinolf · Post by **jadinolf** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:20 pm

I had 4 computers in operation last year. All I lost was my HP 7200i CDRW. Cost was $360 and I replaced
it with a $45 Lite-On 52x.

MK888 · Post by **MK888** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:35 pm

Two hard drives
Two Dual PIII MoBos
one stick of DDR Memory
Old 36X Creative CDROM
two Logitech trackballs
Possibly my Klipsch 4.1 system

But damn... my old P200MMX stills runs like a champ. Fired it up a day ago, and away it went. Has a 10Gig IDE drive it it that has thousands of hours on it..... Gotta keep the old stuff around to play the old games

buddhazen · Post by **buddhazen** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 12:02 pm

2 cpus
2 motherboards
1 antec psu
and my frickin plextor 12/10/32a finnally gave up
that burner held it down b4 this liteon group came!

ShibasScotch · Post by **ShibasScotch** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 1:02 pm

lets see

An Emachiene cyrix 333, thou that was on purpose
Gigabyte ga-7vrxp
512 stick of samsung pc2700 (RMA from newegg w00t, newegg still rocks)
both sets of brakes on my MR2
alot of junky monitors at my job (13-15" ones that did anywhere from greyscale to 8 bit color

)
and soon to be my roommate, if he continues to get that invisibility in HALO

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 5:38 pm

I killed a 9500pro, a mboard and maybe a hd or 2. Slow year.

Greg

zandor · Post by **zandor** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:57 pm

Worse than average year, but still pretty slow.
Just a $700 hard drive. Well, $700 in roughly august 1997.
4GB 7200rpm UW SCSI.

That assumes you don't count most of an iMac. It was working... now it runs Windows.

I've still got circa 1999 CD drives running. Damned Plextors. I used to go through a CD-Drive a year before I got these things. Even all 10 of the refurb FC-AL HDs I got last summer are still running. What fun is a PC if you never have to fix it? I need to start buying lower quality components. On the upside, at least I still have a Ford product.