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[Tarazet]

Until a year ago, I had an ancient Mac G3. It was slow, but it simply refused to break. I didn't have to make any repairs to it whatsoever. The PC world has not been so kind to me. Just in the past month, I've had a BenQ CD-RW drive, a Gyropoint Gyration Ultra wireless keyboard/mouse combo, and a SoundMAX Digital Integrated Audio sound-card die on me. It's making me a bit wary of component makers, so I'd be interested to know what has been reliable for PC owners here at GAF, and what hasn't. Hard drives, disk drives, power supplies, whatever.. what has broken on you, and what company made it?

Complete list:

ASUS wireless mouse (bundled with laptop)
SoundMAX Digital Integrated Audio sound-card
BenQ CD-RW drive
Gyropoint Gyration Ultra wireless keyboard/mouse combo

 

[Diablos]

My 4x LDW-411S (Lite-on DVD burner) finally died a month ago. It still burned DVD's, but they were unreadable. And yes folks, I was using quality media (in fact the same media I was using when it was still working - Ritek and Taiyo Yuden).

Ah well, it was in another comp anyway, and I'm a NEC fanboy now. w00t

 

[Dragona Akehi]

HP Pavilion 5000 Laptop, here.

EVERYTHING BREAKS. CONSTANTLY. SPECIALLY RIGHT AFTER IT HAS BEEN REPAIRED BY HP THEMSELVES.

NEVER EVER BUY A FUCKING HP PRODUCT. EVER.

 

[Pochacco]

My old computer's power-supply died. But that's about all.
I guess I've been pretty lucky.

Hell, my HP 4x CD burner is still good!

 

[Great King Bowser]

The skip track media button on my Inspiron 8600 has broken.

 

[Diablos]

I intentionally ruined a 52x TDK CD burner by hacking a 12x Liteon firmware file and then flashed the drive. :lol This was of course after I bought a DVD burner (and had a genuine, not rebadged liteon CD writer).

 

[automagnus]

2 CD Readers
2 powersupplies
1 Harddrive (due to a PSU failure)
1 Monitor (it was 7 years old)

 

[teh_pwn]

Samsung DVD-ROM. Had random consistent disc read errors (like certain files from a installation disc would always fail, but work on another drive). Then it just quit completely.


That is all.

 

[goodcow]

2 Power Supplies (cheap no-name shit from the Indian computer store where I used to live; the place was named COMPUTERS)
1 IBM DeathStar HD (30GB)

My Sony DRU-500AX burner seems to be dying now, having difficult reading DVDs. It stopped burning DVD-R a year ago, and will only burn +R. Fuck you Sony.

 

[Claus]

One 10 gig HD, which only broke because I kicked my computer.

 

[evil ways]

I've had a power supply stop working, a cheapo Belkin keyboard in which a large group of keys stopped working, and old 24x CD-Rom drive died on me and I broke and cracked the front removable panel of my pld PC case, funny enough while trying to remove it to replace the damaged CD drive.

 

[Vormund]

Recently had a 200 GB SATA drive just die on me after a month of buying it.

Good thing I didn't really have time to fill it up.

That's the only that I can think of that died on me for no apparent reason. Other stuff just stopped working because it was either or old, or I fucked it up.

 

[Do The Mario]

The E key poped for my Laptop keyboard a few days ago, i can't get it back on!

 

[spliced]

A new Motherboard, I spent a day trying to install my videocard only to find it was my MB.
Mouse(may have been my fault I can't remember)
Soundcard
Creative DVD player
I had some weird problem when my hard drive wouldn't be detected every once in a while but I never figured out what the problem was, but I don't have that comp anymore.

 

[Hitokage]

I've had a Soundblaster 64 AWE litterally explode when I switched my memory from SIMMs to DIMMs with SDRAM because I didn't readjust mobo voltage, and I've fried my Asus K7V266-E/AA mobo while installing my heatsink because I wasn't being careful.

Other than that, I can only think of the Memorex/Lite-on CDRW that died on me. Oh, and while it isn't really a computer part, I've had a television take a lightning surge full on while I was using it to play my psx. The TV gave out an extremely bright flash then died, while my psx was left completely unharmed despite being unprotected and on the very same outlet.

 

[Zaptruder]

For a good while, with my old computer I was running the comp without a case cover on it... and without a cover on the PSU. But that was because the fan stopped working for the PSU and actually caught itself on fire. The damndest thing is that it still worked though, even with the blown smoking/firey capacitator, as long as they fan worked (it would stop occasionally; I'd have the cover off so I could spin it up again manually).

Other then that, my mobo has died, as well as a videocard and a DVD drive.

 

[BTMash]

2 power supplies
2 hard drives
1 motherboard
1 video card
1 monitor

 

[Talas]

I literally broke a mobo while trying to put a new videocard like 5 years ago... it was just the *crack* and then a big "¡¡chingada madre!!"

 

[Sledn]

2 Power supplies
3 Hard drives
1 CDRW
2 IDE Cables... (I must have broken them some how, don't ask)
1 Printer

 

[Miniboss]

My power supply died. But, I guess that's bound to happen when a shitty $35-40 case is bought.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

2 powerbook power cords
current one taped I must buy another very soon

2 iMac puck mice

 

[Bobety]

2 harddrives
a power supply
motherboard
cd drive
disk drive
zip disk drive
sound card
1 graphics card (geforce2 mx)
2 sticks of 256 RAM

 

[Hitokage]

Oh yeah, I must have repressed this... I had a Zip drive that acquired click death in the middle of a major data transfer job.

 

[Zensetsu]

A 10 gig HD
A 20 gig HD

Also, not broken as such but i bought a Radeon 9600 256mg video card that was actually faulty straight out of the box.

 

[Blimblim]

My 3 IBM hard drives all died on me within 1 year after purchase. Never again.
My Pioneer dvd drive just died too (it crashes the whole system when I insert a disc, weird).

 

[fart]

i can break pretty much anything

 

[EGM92]

ECS Motherboard crapped out on me during a Bios update.
AMD 2200+ CPU burned when my stupid tech teacher pressed the power button and fried the CPU cause it had no heatsink.

Microsoft Mice... about 3 of them all different versions scroll kept breaking and buttons would double click sometimes. Eventually they completely broke down. (MS makes THE worst Mice when it comes to quality)

Logitech wireless mouse just stopped working.

LiteON DVD-RW almost dead won't read CD-R media unless it top grade.

17" Powerbook (less then 2 weeks old) Brother took it to work, came home in pieces, never asked why or how, got a nice cheque for 2900$ with it so I was happy.