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End of year thread: Tally up the dead parts!
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:57 pm
by sbp
Yes, its that time again so please list the PC parts that have died on you or have been killed.
The power supply decides to go out with a bang, your videocard gets partially fried cause the fan stopped working, the hard drive crashes and can't be revived.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:02 pm
by b-man1
nothing died on the home pc front for me this year!
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:36 pm
by 123cool
erm trying to think not much
IDE drive and erm that was it i think.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:49 pm
by dadx2mj
Think the only thing I toasted this year was an ATI 9800 Pro due to a fan failure. Just happened last week. Whoops take that back lost a Power Color 9600 Pro as well.. So two vid cards
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:54 pm
by Pugsley
80 gig PATA drive... never went compleatly bad.. just got real loud.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:36 pm
by nitro237
A wireless router, a hard drive, and a socket A mobo. Not too bad , I guess.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:02 pm
by Executioner
DVD burner
SCSI cable
My very old Plextor 32x SCSI reader that I got way back in 1997 finally bit the dust and had to toss it.
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:09 am
by Brianm77
Most of ya'll should get a kick of this
I have a computer at work and all it is used for is service manuals. It is a bare bones sys. But the hd only 4.3 GIG not big enough to install new manual. I did not want to wait on shipping but wanted cheep 20 GIG. Found oly one in town at computer store !!USED!! copied data, opend, and formated 3 times at store and worked fine In stalled in computer and installed OS. During reboot started makeing god awful racket. I'd say it bit the dust. Sounds like a bent blade on fan hitting cage.
Still have hd if any one wants to pay shipping on Hit... no Fujitsu paper weight???
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:08 am
by wvjohn
with a power blip this summer 2 ps, 2 5 port switches, cooked off 9800 pro (fan died), socket A mobo
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:52 pm
by impuresoul2k3
nothing for me
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:57 pm
by eGoCeNTRoNiX
1x80GB PATA HD.......... And that's it that I know of..
eGo
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:35 pm
by Jim Z
I wrecked a Radeon 9800. Bitch is, I don't know what I did. I was changing the heatsink, taking all of the normal ESD precautions, yet the damn thing was still b0rked afterwards.
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:34 pm
by nexus_7
1 939 mboard
1 80g WD
1 Dlink router
Greg
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:55 am
by ZYFER
2005 has been better for me, just two old hard drives
Retail value, maybe $15 bucks.
Compared to 2004, retail loss of about $800
*boos lightning*
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:10 am
by GuardianAsher
Socket A mobo, bad caps. 250 Watt PSU, couple of fans, CD burner, CD-ROM, Socket 370 mobo, few pairs of headphones, floppy drive, cable modem, NIC... bottom PCI slot on my main computer... Fan on my processor HSF... umb... *ponders* I think that's it.