What's Your List of Hardware Failures Like?

[Zoot]

Not sure if this has been done before, might make an interesting thread.

As for me, my list isn't overly long; I've built 4 machines in the last 8 or so years. Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a Mechanical HDD fail on me yet, despite having rakes of them lying around.

* I had the motherboard of an old Dell laptop (Inspiron 1501 - AMD based of course ) fail on me thanks to a failed bios flash, got it replaced under warranty.

* I had an old eVGA Geforce 6200 GT die on me, I moved to a new machine with a 8800 GTS after that.

* My trushworthy Sapphire HD 4870 died on my after about 3.5 or so years of usage.

* I had some Kingston DDR3-1333 memory fail about 2 years ago on me. Windows started randomly blue-screening and my Linux OS (Debian) would lock up. Memtest threw up a rake of errors, I then picked up my current 16GB on the cheap after that.

Not really that long a list given the timeframe I reckon. What's yours like?

 

[maniac]

the only thing I reckon failing on me was a corsair hx850 after exactly 2 years, scan were kind enough to still replace it a couple of days after warranty expired.

the other thing was an hdd in my bro's pc.

endlist ();

 

[WillSK]

* Dead Seagate barracuda (although it was getting old)

* Faulty PSU which exploded on first start up. (I was shitting myself that i'd ruined my first completely self built PC) and nope it wasn't a cheap PSU

* Had to replace the i/o panel on my 600T before I sold it as the fan controller had broken

But that's about it so I would say i've been pretty lucky!

 

[barnsley]

Okay so I've not had the best of luck over the relatively short space of time that I've been building rigs (~3 years).

3x EVGA gts450s (all under rma, all had different issues, I replaced my entire system at one point incase if it was to do with me)
3x OCZ ssds (all failed after a few months of being put in builds and were replaced with samsung ssds)
1x seidon 120 (pump died, CM were great for RMAs though)
1x samsung 1080p monitor.
and finally, some crappy OEM memory in my ol' trusty think pad laptop.

-edit- nothing has failed on me from AMD or intel yet, considering both my project PC and eventually my current pc will be running that combo I really hope it stays that way .
-further edit- do not get me started on head phones, I estimate I've probably blown more on headphones in the last two years than I did on my first car.

 

[dalewakelin]

2x exploded cheapo psu's
1x Asrock motherboard

That is all

 

[SPS]

* Red NZXT LED Strips

Lucky thus far with hardware.

 

[Raphael]

* Dead Hitachi 320GB HDD died a month and a half after warranty ended
* Dead nvidia XFX 7900GS XT died 2 months after warranty ended
* Dead WD Green 1TB HDD after 3 months of use, replaced under warranty
* memtest errors in my corsair vengeance ddr3 16GB 1600Mhz currently being replaced

My luck is improving...

 

[SavageCupcake]

Some old oem acer ram, couple of bit fenix spectre pro fans that started clicking and a corsair vengence 1300 headset that lost audio to the right earcup (Corsair's rma service was epic mind)

I had a feeling my gpu was on it's way out but turned out it wasn't fully in the slot, it's fine now.

 

[looz]

Antec TruePower 2.0 450W(or was it 430?) blew up with a puff of smoke.

GTX 280 suffered from microfractures, while heating up it usually just greeted me with a screen full of glitches.

I went full retard with 4670, left it on auto overclock with atitool overnight, screensaver overrided it and when I moved my mouse in the morning it had adjusted clocks to the maximum. Rendering 3D again caused the card to fail.

Acer AL 1951's power supply melted.

Two external hard drives have just given up, perhaps I traveled too much with them. Both had WD greens inside them, 1TB and 2TB.

Two DVD drives have stopped reading CDs, DVDs still work.

Xbox 360 RROD'd. Got it RMA'd but by the time it returned I didn't care about consoles anymore.

I ruined my HD 5850 by using conductive thermal paste with a custom GPU cooler. Beer and switching coolers don't mix.

I destroyed my Scythe Kama Amp Kro by mixing + and - while building a portable boombox... That smell of catastrophic electrical failure wasn't easy to get rid of!

Come to think of it I'm a moron.

Edit: Well, I forgot about headphones.

I've broken the cable of two Sennheiser PX100 headsets and the cable of some Creative gaming headphones. Latter was no loss, but PX-100s were great for outside use. My Sennheiser HD555s gave up after 5 years of being tossed around since I have a habit of tripping to headphone cables. I've also broken two cheapo Philips headphones that way.

Getting more and more off-topic but I've also managed to drown three nokia 3310s to my boat's bilge water compartment or whatever you call it.

 

[maniac]

oh yeah I forgot to list a creative fatality headset and a steelseries siberia that lost sound from one side -.-

 

[SeekaX]

* some AMD CPU died within 2 weeks (my first ever CPU)
* 60GB HDD, no clue what's wrong with that thing, windows dies after about a week
* 1.5TB external HDD (was my fault, i put my backpack down too harsh)
* 2TB WD green DOA
* 7950 DCII artifacts and very poor performance in old games
* another 7950 DCII, the famous poorly seated cooler incident
* another 7950 DCII had the same issues as the first one
* EVGA GTX 670 FTW VSync wouldn't work and weird artifacts in BC2 on certain settings
*MSI MPower/4770k not sure which one was broken, but it went into bootloop\
*USB speakers. quite a stupid incident, i was searching for the right cable and i found one that fit, but it was a normal wall socket plug. 16V. vibrated for 10s then it smelled weird. found the USB adapter a few minutes later and a little tag on the back "4V", yea.
*Corsair H60, still in RMA, on every cold boot a bubble gets stuck in the pump
*HP pavillion dv6 laptop, not broken but some pixels are dying and in the same spot the screen is overly bright, also the "?" key broke
*bose in ears, twice. both broke after about a year, cable broke. bose was nice enough to replace the first pair and even give me a newer version! which then died a year later because of the same issue.

 

[Zoot]

* Faulty PSU which exploded on first start up. (I was shitting myself that i'd ruined my first completely self built PC) and nope it wasn't a cheap PSU

What sort of PSU was it?

 

[yassarikhan786]

- 2 of the three fans died on my 580 - RMA was fast.
- Caviar Black 2TB became faulty after about a year and a half of use - Again RMA was fast.
- 120 GB Corsair Force 3 died - Didn't bother with RMA and got a Crucial M4 instead.

That's it for me thus far.

 

[WillSK]

What sort of PSU was it?

It was a 750w NZXT Hale90 Gold rated if memory serves me correctly. Got replaced with a Corsair HX750 when I got my money back.

One of the capacitors exploded the moment I hit the power switch sending tiny fragments of metal into my case and a plume of smoke and a flash from the back of the case. I am so so glad nothing else was ruined as a result coz it was all plugged in when it happened

 

[Zoot]

It was a 750w NZXT Hale90 Gold rated if memory serves me correctly. Got replaced with a Corsair HX750 when I got my money back.

One of the capacitors exploded the moment I hit the power switch sending tiny fragments of metal into my case and a plume of smoke and a flash from the back of the case. I am so so glad nothing else was ruined as a result coz it was all plugged in when it happened

That's made by some company called "FSP" apparently, hadn't heard of them before.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/power-supply-oem-manufacturer,2913-8.html

The Corsair PSUs (to my knowledge) tend to predominantly come from Seasonic. My nearly 5 year old Corsair HX 620W is a re-badged Seasonic PSU for instance.

(Very few companies who sell the PSUs; Coolermaster, Corsair, XFX, NZXT etc. actually make the PSUs themselves)

 

[Mathius]

I've been relatively ok with hardware faults....

The XFX Proseries 550w PSU in my wife's rig packed in.....used a temp cheapo 400w PSU while it was sent to Novatech and then to the Netherlands (XFX) - all great now though.

My 2nd hand (ebay) HD 4870 recently packed up and gave me a few select words.... :lol:

RMA'd my IceQ 7950 Boost for a fan noise issue, and had it replaced.

Thats it!
So far I've had no nasty dealings with any returns

 

[Spiderz]

Cheapo PSU in my brother's PC went snap crackle and bang and my current GPU just decided to die on me for two weeks but before I got round to replacing it, it somehow decided to work again.

Other than that, had an old Fx5000 series NVIDIA gpu DOA and fried half an HP laptop.

Got a feeling this XIGMATEK psu is going to die soon, getting awfully hot.

 

[WillSK]

That's made by some company called "FSP" apparently, hadn't heard of them before.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/power-supply-oem-manufacturer,2913-8.html

The Corsair PSUs (to my knowledge) tend to predominantly come from Seasonic. My nearly 5 year old Corsair HX 620W is a re-badged Seasonic PSU for instance.

(Very few companies who sell the PSUs; Coolermaster, Corsair, XFX, NZXT etc. actually make the PSUs themselves)

It was the V1 not the V2 so I believe it is made by another company on that list "Superflower" it seems. But yeah I was well aware that companies often rebrand/add their touches to an OEM PSU. Always see great things about Seasonic of which my HX is I believe.

 

[chrismjurd]

SB Awe32 died after a good innings though.
my cyrix pr233 melted spectacularly
my first big hard drive clicked itself to death, seagate st3491a.
a no brand 15" tft monitor when they first came out, popped on connecting to my pc, 1hour after buying it. didnt buy another flatscreen for 10years.
an old coolermaster psu sprung me 5meters across the room after removing it from my old case after smelling the good old solder smell.
corsair ssd x32 died 1month after purchase, didnt hear back from them.
sandisk ssd ultra 60gb died 6months after purchase sad panda lost in the mail on rma
saitek cyborg keyboard space bar retention clips snapped 2months after purchase, took it back, wouldnt exchange, had to sellotape it for 9months till i got totally pissed off with it and karate chopped it personal victory
and my ol gainward 460 died slowly in its sleep, but i got it 2nd hand anyways

memories.

 

[Morgenmuffel]

hmmm...nothing Special so far...but almost killed my 2nd GTX680 by Leaktesting the System...3 Laings pushin too much power through the system so that the Bridge was flooding my Backplate without noticing ... everything i herad was a little "plitsch" and my heart stopped for just a second...=)