Did you ever had a PC part die on you?

[evinta]

Motherboard: In a laptop part of it had melted (as in all you saw was melted plastic...  IT STILL TURNED ON, I srsly don't know how. 

GPU: Not me but dad. Brought a new custom PC. Spent $300 on a GPU, couldn't understand why the colours were all werid.... so he got it changed to a new one and bang instant improvement. 

HD: Too many to know better about backing up.

CD/DVD burner: A few years ago i had another laptop and the reader died. I took it in, got told it was a virus so i'll be paying for the "investigation" even had a note saying "female customer has no clue" on the work order written by the staff member. Got it back a week later and got told that the drive died and therefore they had to put in a new one, then got a job offer... i turned it down because it meant working on commission..

Flash drives: Too many, never save all your data to one.

SD cards: Yupp. 

And to top it all off. Tiddles (current PC) has a card reader that doesn't work!

[Briggsy]

My R9 290 died after 5 days, had to RMA and get replacement. 

 

I've seen a number of HGST (hitachi) hard drives fail in other peoples pre-built PC's.

 

biggest one is probably headphones, but that's usually my own stupid fault.

[SMURG]

I've had a PSU fail (Cisco, my fault for buying), an AIO liquid cooler fail (Antec one, but none of my Zalman, Corsair or NZXT ones have failed yet), a RAM stick fail (dammit Patriot), a GPU fail (way back in 2008, can't even remember the model), and 2 fans fail (Corsair SP120s, although I bought a lot and only 2/10 failed so just bad luck I guess, the rest work fine). I've also had SSDs start misbehaving (not showing on boot etc.) without properly failing, and I had the SATA controller start giving up the ghost in my Alienware m11x to the point where it only boots about 15% of the time so you just have to keep trying till it reaches Windows...

[evinta]

I've seen a number of HGST (hitachi) hard drives fail in other peoples pre-built PC's.

 

Thats the one that just failed on me... but its external. Im taking it back and seeing if i can exchange it for flash drives, i never want a mech eHD again. 

[TheRagingGamer]

Motherboard: In a laptop part of it had melted (as in all you saw was melted plastic...  IT STILL TURNED ON, I srsly don't know how. 

GPU: Not me but dad. Brought a new custom PC. Spent $300 on a GPU, couldn't understand why the colours were all werid.... so he got it changed to a new one and bang instant improvement. 

HD: Too many to know better about backing up.

CD/DVD burner: A few years ago i had another laptop and the reader died. I took it in, got told it was a virus so i'll be paying for the "investigation" even had a note saying "female customer has no clue" on the work order written by the staff member. Got it back a week later and got told that the drive died and therefore they had to put in a new one, then got a job offer... i turned it down because it meant working on commission..

Flash drives: Too many, never save all your data to one.

SD cards: Yupp. 

And to top it all off. Tiddles (current PC) has a card reader that doesn't work!

I had an ATI card that showed weird colors. Turns out it was blown capacitor, replaced with a solid state capacitor still works till this day 

[TheRagingGamer]

My R9 290 died after 5 days, had to RMA and get replacement. 

 

I've seen a number of HGST (hitachi) hard drives fail in other peoples pre-built PC's.

 

biggest one is probably headphones, but that's usually my own stupid fault.

I have a hitachi from a pre build that's working after 7 years and has no bad sectors 

[TheRagingGamer]

I've had a PSU fail (Cisco, my fault for buying), an AIO liquid cooler fail (Antec one, but none of my Zalman, Corsair or NZXT ones have failed yet), a RAM stick fail (dammit Patriot), a GPU fail (way back in 2008, can't even remember the model), and 2 fans fail (Corsair SP120s, although I bought a lot and only 2/10 failed so just bad luck I guess, the rest work fine). I've also had SSDs start misbehaving (not showing on boot etc.) without properly failing, and I had the SATA controller start giving up the ghost in my Alienware m11x to the point where it only boots about 15% of the time so you just have to keep trying till it reaches Windows...

you had a ram stick fail on you? I didn't even know that's possible 

[SMURG]

you had a ram stick fail on you? I didn't even know that's possible 

Well not "fail", but I started having random program crashes, ran memtest and it was showing like 20,000 errors. Removed that stick, 0 errors and 0 program crashes. So yeah it wasn't "dead" but it was incapable of normal operation. If you put that stick in a system programs will just crash as soon as they use any of the memory on it.

[Trik'Stari]

My GPU recently died (I think/hope so I can get a newer better one from EVGA's warranty)

[flibberdipper]

My ASRock N68C-GS FX died, my Radeon HD 6570 died (both due to heat and the 6570 had something go "piff"), and my two Socket 478 ASUS boards died from the CPU VRM stuff going kaput.

[Enderman]

Never.

[Probenja]

I had an very old Athlon x64 died so I had to replace my PC, but that is about it. And my brother had an gpu died on him, but I had an even older one and still works.

[Cloud92]

Power surge from a lightning about 6-7 years ago,or more,can't tell,burned the gpu,1 ram stick,motherboard and PSU,CPU and hard drives did not die. I was young and dumb and tried to clean the PC with a vacuum cleaner,the PC was also on the carpet,motherboard died taking the GPU with it and that was it. And during the years about 2 other no name PSUs. That old Intel pentium 4 3.0ghz still works to this day,so does the 200gb maxtor drive

[Scia]

5x OZC Vertex 2 [after 1mt, 3mt, 6mt, 7mt and 13mt]

2x Asus ROG G73JH [And basically every piece of hardware inside of them, after ~6 months]

1x Asus ROG G73JW

1x Hitachi Desktop 1TB [bUt to be fair, had this HDD for 5 yrs, and it was running 24/7 and Ubuntu (back then) warned me it was going to fail, and I got all the data off of it)]

[TheProfosist]

Nope, nothing, never *glares at anthrax build log*

[TheRagingGamer]

My ASRock N68C-GS FX died, my Radeon HD 6570 died (both due to heat and the 6570 had something go "piff"), and my two Socket 478 ASUS boards died from the CPU VRM stuff going kaput.

Haha i had that mobo, bought it used for $20 sold it again later fo $15 

[Darkman]

Oooh, this was fun.

 

I had an HIS Radeon HD 7770 1GB as a secondary GPU for a while, and one day, it threw flames. I think a MOSFET exploded. No OC, no modifications, nothing. Just *poof*.

Lol, hoping everything else was fine in the computer? I personally want to push my Asus Radeon HD 7770 2GB further than 1060MHz. But of course I want to wait until I upgrade everything due to feeling like my motherboard isn't really going to like that.

Also I haven't had a part fail in a long time.

[vt3c]

PNY Nvidia Quadro FX 570. 

Never buy a PNY GPU. I've had just about every PNY video card die. EVERY single one. Even these quadros, which were made for the long haul.

[TheSLSAMG]

Lol, hoping everything else was fine in the computer? I personally want to push my Asus Radeon HD 7770 2GB further than 1060MHz. But of course I want to wait until I upgrade everything due to feeling like my motherboard isn't really going to like that.

Also I haven't had a part fail in a long time.

Yeah, everything else was fine.

[Scheer]

Everything Asus and Corsair I've purchased that I routinely use, they were all on my main system.

 

K90, M60, and Vengeance 2000s from Corsair

 

Xonar U7 DAC and two P8Z77-V Pro/Thunderbolt motherboards from Asus. Second was a RMA board and likely was never fixed properly in the first place, they sent me a brand new board after that one failed and it went strait to eBay, I just didn't want to deal with it.

 

I have 4 other computers with Asus motherboards that are on nearly 24/7 (other than my HTPC) and they have been fine, one of them is 5 years old now.

 

Other than that a few REALLY old hard drives seemed like the might be unreliable so I quit using them, may have been perfectly fine though, and I have an HP desktop that has had a few motherboards and GPUs replaced in it under warranty, gotta love Sams 5-year extended warranty.   I've also had a few motherboards in laptops go out, but I was EXTREMELY hard on them, and can't fault the components for it. I would slept with them a lot, and would wake up sweating from the heat when I pulled the covers over, plus they had been dropped dozens of times each. I'm sure there are a few little things I am forgetting, but overall it is really unlikely to have issues.

 

My brother had a Thermaltake power supply go out on him, it is only PSU I've ever seen go bad. I even have a few REALLY old 200W PSU's that have been converted for powering random electronics and they are still kicking. A couple of them are nearly 20 years old by now, pulled out of OEM systems that were running Windows 95.

 

EDIT: Crap... forgot about OCZ SSD's, I've had a lot of those die... stay the hell away.

[Briggsy]

I have a hitachi from a pre build that's working after 7 years and has no bad sectors 

 

The ones I've seen go are recent, within past couple years. the 1TB models.

[Decon]

Hard drive ;_;

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Couple of hard drives over the years, threw a couple more out due to lots of errors. 

The 1TB Hitachi Deskstars were a nightmare indeed.  We called them Deathstars for a reason ...

 

 

Also had a BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 850W PSU go so wonky that It would only boot the PC on a hot day or after dozens of attempts (voltage was unstable at lower temps, causing it to reboot after 5 seconds). 

 

EDIT : Oh, and a 240GB RevoDrive X2 and a 60GB Vertex 2 too. 

[Ursad0n]

I recently had a GPU die on me but it was about 4 years old

[Admiaczking]

My old Hitachi Travelstar died after 3 years