End of year thread: Tally up the dead parts!

[renovation]

renos is is always long ! and this year was no diffrent

[Pikachu]

PS, 220v trick
HDD, 160 GB, went down in a city I can't name...
mobo/cpu, but this one was killed by a ballpen hammer (c'mon it was a celeron)
Xbox ps, some idiot plugged my good xbox into 220v
xbox dvd drive.... that city with no name... yeah ate this
sp.ice mod chip... This one died from undetermined causes, who knows what happened.
17" TV, blew the back completely off....
3 transformers (300w each 220v to 110v)
45 power strips (not kidding here)
Blown out my speakers for my computer.
Killed my mouseman dual optical mouse (this was a bummer)

you know what, iraq basically killed over 75% of my electronics this year....

[Qui Gon-Jinn]

Hmm.. kinda a bad year for me..

Let's see..

CPU.. AMD Athlon 2500 Barton.. cracked th core installing a HS/HSF

Mobo.. Gigabyte Socket 939.. flakey board. don't know what went wrong there. but repalced it..

Kybd/Mouse.. Wireless deal.. logitech.. just replaced it with wired versions.. I game to much to have wireless

Case.. flakey cheap POS.. ended up selling it just tonight to a guy who is going to cut it up and mod it.. got $10 out of it.. got it for free when I built my a64 rig

Ipod 4gen 20gb non photo.. ripped the HDD connector off the Mobo.. sold HD for $90.. bought 5th gen Ipod Video 30gb..

couple of CD-Rom/RW's.. cheap POS'S..

now.. things I replaced/upgraded..

AMD 64 3000+.. went to a 3700+
Ram.. added 2gb's to my 1.5 that I had between my 2 machines..
Ram Upgraded my laptop from 512 to 1gb
Monitors.. replaced a Hitachi 17" LCD with a Viewsonic 17" LCD only to replae that with a Dell 2405..
Speakers.. Labtech Stereo.. replaced with Creative 2.1.. replaced with Logitech 5.1
Keyboards.. went through a few.. now have a nice viewsonic one I like
Mice.. a few also.. ended the year with a MX510.. but looking at the g5.. soon.. yes..


thats aboutit..