Due To The Failure Of Which Of These Components

[Neo 721]

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]

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]

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]

yeah my cdrw broke and had to replace it

my grandpa thought it's a cup holder

[LTJBukem]

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.

Good tip.

Sorry. What were we talking about again?

[Neo 721]

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

[johnboy27]

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

[_John_Lennon_]

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]]

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...

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.

[DarthInsinuate]

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