Due To The Failure Of Which Of These Components [Archive]

Livy

10-01-2003, 12:04 AM

in 4 years, ive had 3/4 ball mice, and one optical fail, the optical one because the wire split after about a year an a half.
and one hdd fail after about 3 year, though it may still be useable

LTJBukem

10-01-2003, 12:37 AM

Yeah, ball mice here too. I had to use a particularly crap ball mouse last week, i do not miss them one bit- optical is the way to go.

Otherwise, i had one dvddrive go 'funny', causing my system to hang at detecting ide devices. And a PSU, although that's not on your list, which died in a puff of smoke. Finally i had to replace a cpu fan that was sounding a bit dodgy.

zapjb

10-01-2003, 12:48 AM

On my 3rd HDD in 2yr, under warr. thanks. Edit: And 1 PSU.

Acecool

10-01-2003, 01:04 AM

4 mobos in 1 year... lol..

Was under warranty, still have some probs but nothing a pencil under the network card cannot fix lol...

Livy

10-01-2003, 11:54 AM

oh yeah, ive had 3 cdroms go in 4 years too

ilw

10-01-2003, 12:29 PM

ball mice suck <_< never going back to them
had 2 sets of ram fail on 2 different computers in 4 years other than that any failures have been my fault :P

lynx

10-01-2003, 01:21 PM

With mice, you get what you pay for. I've only ever had 1 mouse fail, and that's because I stood on the cable. But the usual problem with mice is keeping the ball AND the rollers clean. Occasionally I find it necessary to dismantle the mouse to clean the accumulated gunge off the rollers, but other than that it's just a case of occasionally washing the ball in warm soapy water.

Interestingly, one of the biggest causes of failure with mice is wax, usually caused by some kind thinking person deciding that the mouse mat would be much better if it was occasionally cleaned with furniture polish. Cleaning that stuff off your mouse mat and the ball/rollers can be a nightmare. :D

Apart from that, the only component failures I can remember (on my own systems) have been a hard drive and a power supply.

Neo 721

10-01-2003, 08:55 PM

Most external components are supposed to be the least likley to fail eg the Moniter which is said to be the most reliable component, but anything that contains any amount of moving parts will automaticly have a life span. Anything else will die either because of overheating or faulty or burnt out microcomponants.

3RA1N1AC

10-01-2003, 09:06 PM

2 hard drives (about one year each)

2 PSUs (between one and three years)

1 CD-Rom

1 monitor (lasted approx 5 years)

the monitor burned out after several years, which sucked but at least it lasted for a while. the CD-Rom broke because one of its power pins came out when i disconnected it from the PSU.

the hard drives and PSUs died completely on their own-- i'd have to say that these are the worst. they were name brand parts, not generic, but they still died just from poor manufacturing quality or heat/electrical tolerance or sumfin. i'm really disappointed in the quality of hard drives & PSUs nowadays.

Neo 721

10-01-2003, 09:13 PM

Yeah, thats the thing with non branded parts, fans are the biggest culprits for that especially in graphics cards. In order to cut costs they have to use the cheapest fans available some of which can cost less than £1 and often fail on arival resulting a lessoned life span.

james_bond_rulez

10-01-2003, 09:24 PM

yeah my cdrw broke and had to replace it

my grandpa thought it's a cup holder :unsure:

LTJBukem

10-01-2003, 09:42 PM

Originally posted by lynx@ 1 October 2003 - 13:21
but other than that it's just a case of occasionally washing the ball in warm soapy water. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Good tip.

Sorry. What were we talking about again?:o

:P :)

Neo 721

10-01-2003, 10:03 PM

My power supply went after i added another hard drive it turned out that the PSU was opperating at 190W

johnboy27

10-02-2003, 01:28 AM

I have had one monitor fail this year and one mobo.

_John_Lennon_

10-02-2003, 01:35 AM

I've had my mouse and keyboard from my '95 Toshiba go, although I think the keyboard still works, (with the exception of the space bar. <_< ) And, my keyboard from the late 99 Machine I have.

uNz[i]

10-02-2003, 09:40 AM

For me its been CD drives for varying reasons.

Had a 64X CDrom drive blow on me... it made a *fzzt* sound, there was a thin wisp of smoke from the back of the box and the smell of burnt plastic... turned out to be a crapped out power lead... bleh.
That's what you get for buying noname parts... :rolleyes:

I got a Sony 48X to replace it... and an LG burner too, but thats getting old now.. only has an 8X burn rate, so DVD/CDRW Combo drive is going to replace that in a month or 2.

Recently had to replace the mobo too.. that sucked, only had it a year and a half.. Oh well, I guess it was time to upgrade, anyway... looks like my PC thought so too. :lol:

DarthInsinuate

10-02-2003, 02:09 PM

I've had a hard drive burnout as a consequence of my PSU's fan snuffing it

and my brother's PSU just plain exploded

ultimatejester

10-02-2003, 08:37 PM

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@1 October 2003 - 21:24
yeah my cdrw broke and had to replace it

my grandpa thought it's a cup holder :unsure:
lol. yesterday my brother dropped my compaq laptop. thank god its still gud other wise i wud have killed him

_John_Lennon_

10-02-2003, 08:42 PM

Originally posted by Justsomeguy@2 October 2003 - 04:40

Had a 64X CDrom drive

Umm, what? 64X........ <_<

accat13

10-02-2003, 11:57 PM

1 52x lg cdrom about 8 months old .. the store i bought it from would not honour the 1 year manufacture warranty(i lost the receipt who keeps them).Any how thankfully durring manufacturing they put a sticker on with the date its made.So i went straight to LG ,I had to take it there personaly, I argued and they finnaly honoured there warrant..they sent me one 3 weeks later..The funny thing was they sent me another 2 months after(wish it was a dvdrw oh well) :D

LTJBukem

10-03-2003, 12:43 AM

Originally posted by accat13@2 October 2003 - 23:57
1 52x lg cdrom about 8 months old .. the store i bought it from would not honour the 1 year manufacture warranty(i lost the receipt who keeps them).Any how thankfully durring manufacturing they put a sticker on with the date its made.So i went straight to LG ,I had to take it there personaly, I argued and they finnaly honoured there warrant..they sent me one 3 weeks later..The funny thing was they sent me another 2 months after(wish it was a dvdrw oh well) :D
Aye right :rolleyes: You're full of it.

bigdawgfoxx

10-03-2003, 11:01 PM

ball mice here...4 or 5 in 2 years...a new monitor recently...thats it...dell is very good in replacing stuff i must say!

Somebody1234

10-04-2003, 03:03 AM

I would say:

Harddrives
Powersupplies
opticaldrives

in that order.

ultimatejester

10-04-2003, 05:10 AM

man, i c a lot of ppl with problems and here i thought its only gonna be the mouse. wat do ya guys do with ur system. howcome i never had a power supply/hardrive/cdrom failure. is it cuz i am 2 scared of opening my laptop :rolleyes:

MadDog-2000

10-04-2003, 05:15 AM

Countless HD failures and crashes...

Just don't feel like buying expensive SCSI drives so I let those crappy ATA drives run 24/7 :D About once or twice a year I gotta get new hard drives. :P

uNz[i]

10-04-2003, 11:40 AM

Originally posted by _John_Lennon_+3 October 2003 - 06:12--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (_John_Lennon_ @ 3 October 2003 - 06:12)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Justsomeguy@2 October 2003 - 04:40

Had a 64X CDrom drive

Umm, what? 64X........ <_< [/b][/quote]
That was the maximum speed of the drive... No kidding.

bigdawgfoxx

10-04-2003, 09:42 PM

I have EIDE hard drives 7200 rpm and let them run all the time hardly ever turn my comp off...nothing breaks on mine...nock on wood lol