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Please list the PC parts that have died on you or have been killed {accidently of course }

GeForce 2 GTS: cruising the web when all of a sudden it just died.

ABit BH6 motherboard: Turned it on one day to find bios checksum error. After all those years together too. :/

Radeon 8500 , exchanged it the day after x-mas for a new one.

Adaptec 29160N after I tried to update the BIOS

The Tekram DC-390U3D that I bought to replace the Adaptec had a bad second channel

I still don't have a SCSI card because I RMA'd both cards.

One Leadtek GTS 32 meg RMA no problem new one working good for now

One MS Intelieye Exploreer mouse MS sent a new one all is good there

Thank God this is only about dead parts and not ones replaced because of me wanting something better got a whole closet full of those

1 gig tbird was sent to me packaged poorly and was doa. All the rubber standoffs were melted off, had many chips and looked worse than any cpu I've ever seen.

Received a dvd drive from a good trader that was doa. Worked for him but never me.

Recieved one ecs k7s50 mobo that was doa. RMA it and the replacement worked first day, dead since.

Only thing that was my fault I had a celeron 400 that I might have accidently oc'd to 550. Had a 366@550 before and forgot about changing the settings. I think.

Oh yeah, and some power supplies. One 250w blew up and 2 more blew up but they were included with cheapy cases. Sounded like a small stick of tnt going off. Had a 300w go out also.

A T-Bird 1 Gig here... Don't know what happend but it only seen life for about 4 seconds...

235 PSU went up in smoke...

Nuked a TNT2 Ultra, my roommates video card... It was acting up so i overclocked the piss out if it and unhooked the fan... Amazingly it lasted about 30 min...

HP 7200i 2x2x6 burner.... It was also acting up... Would burn 50% of a disk and stop... So it got the shotgun treatment.... PULL!

I think that was it...

A 1200 tbird and A7V133 mobo while doing pelt/water experiments.
The waterblock didn't touch the CPU when I tried it out the first time = smoked bird.
The mobo had the CPU socket prepared for pelting with some silicon stuff or something (which hardened already), it broke when I tried to remove the fried bird.

Do you get a prize if nothing you own is dead?

Happy new year!!

[knock on wood] I didn't kill anything major in 2001.[/knock on wood]

A Duron 650. Don't know what happen to it.

A 350 watt Enermax power supply. Well, it's sort of dead. Will work for a couple of hours then shut off.

A Pioneer slut loading DVD that I bought from Newegg. I thought something was wrong when it rattled when I unpacked it. Also the face plate was broke. Still waiting on other.

Does speaker cable count? Wrapped some up in the sweeper and yanked one of my sattelites off the desk.

Bought a 19" Viewsonic a couple of weeks ago; arrived DOA

I had 2 19" Viewsonics arrive DOA about 4 yrs ago from a place in AZ, far from here but after expressing much unhappiness to the pres of that company, I finally got a good one. My newest and very in-expensive 19" MAG monitor for another PC here arrived perfect from BB (shipped from OH) and I'm still amazed by the fact that it's screen looks as good as it does, I'd buy another.

My only "killed by me" part in '01 was my new SMC broadband cable router which died trying to upgrade its firmware . I should have its replacement later this week (hopefully). The guy I talked to at SMC said he's heard of that happening a few times from people upgrading firmware on those as I expressed my concern with ever trying that again. He just said "must have been a bad unit". Hopefully #2 will work w/o a hitch.

Old laptops screen finally died thus out went that laptop as well. I like its replacement alot better anyway.

My kid killed his POS Canon P166mhz PC (determined bad mobo by me), which was my first PC but it wasn't a decent PC even in its day and it lived in a "marginally functional" mode for many years, plagued with problems not worthy of repair. RIP I say to that.

SBP,
I have those two parts on two different PCs SO they cannot die . At least I'm hoping that mine last a few more years. If anything could kill my Geforce2 GTS, it'd be by playing "Excessive" Q3 Arena as that mod has to be very hard on the video card with all the flashing going on.

Schwartz,
have you tryed looking at any of those links I previously posted or talking to Radboy about your SCSI card problems? You shouldn't be having all thos problems IMO, even though I'll admit that setting up SCSI is trickier than your basic IDE HDD systems.

Yup I knew what I was doing. Bad hardware all around. I've been running SCSI stuff for well over a year now. Just bad luck all of a sudden. Both companies determined the cards were bad and I am getting replacements for both. In fact Adaptec already sent the replacement card so I should have it soon. I haven't heard back from Hypermicro yet but I sent both cards at the same time.

1.2 t-bird , fried it on the first boot. think it was because I had the shim on wrong. was able to rma it tho.

Soyo 6BA+IV mobo --- Ate voltage regulator and paid Soyo to repair it. Now it is back from the dead and (hopefully) living with Flying Penguin.

2 near misses - Voodoo 5 soaked with coolant after a leak in cooling system - 4 hours in the oven at 150 to get it good and dry and it works fine.

1.2 gig tbird. Apparently fried when I had a brain fart and didn't turn on my water pump. Sat for 4 months in my junk box. Fired it up just for fun a week ago and now it runs fine. ( I don't understand this one at all).