What is the most common part failure you have encountered during your time working on PC's?

[trainergames]

I am asking because I want to compare what you guys say to what I have had happened to me.

 

My most common failed part is the PSU... and my latest one was today, in my server..... it was an Antec Earthwatts 500w...

[brunostejskal]

graphics cards

[paddy-stone]

Motherboard, but only because I count partial failure or DOA parts.

[Unimportant]

Electrolytic capacitors.

In PSU's, on motherboards, on graphics cards, ...

[BetterThanLife]

GPU.

Motherboard second.

[TempestCatto]

Component wise, RAM. Otherwise the most failed part for me would be CPU coolers, I have a tendency to break them

[SolarNova]

LED lights for case lighting

 

Followd by fans

 

Then HDD's

 

Then Laptop batteries.

[Billy Pilgrim]

When I am asked to help someone with something the most common problem is the user.

[TetraSky]

Hard Drive, RAM, PSU are the big three that usually fail for me.

[Teddy07]

PSU as it being the old part that failed during the last 15+ years

[minibois]

Fans and PSUs. Sometimes the fan in a PSU: an epic crossover.

13 minutes ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

When I am asked to help someone with something the most common problem is the user.

Issues on layer 8 are very common.

[Jurrunio]

Seagate hard drives specifically. I think I can get a job in their QC department easily with my ability to pick the bad batch of products out by hand.

[PopsicleHustler]

GPUs and PSUs. I've had 3 cards die in my system In the past 7 years. 2 AMD cards and 1 Nvidia.

 

PSUs are more common because I had to deal with people who thought that pairing a Vega 64/2700x with 30 euro PSU was a good idea.

[Yoinkerman]

Probably psus, prebuilts come with junk

[Arika]

I've only had ram and 2 ssds fail on me

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

always couldnt find my USBs , cables & screw drivers

[skunkmunkey]

Users definitely have the highest rate of failure! for actual hardware, probably PSU's on standard work computers and motherboards on high-end and gaming rigs though.

[IntMD]

Laptop harddrives & ASUS motherboards

[NineEyeRon]

Only component I have lost is an AIO and it took my MoBo with it.

[Princess Luna]

In my hands? I have ever only seen Hard Drivers fail being honest... and a G.Skill Memory set I bought second hand but life time warranty rocks, got a brand new replacement so yeah... nothing to complain.

[Automobili3XF]

Power supply and RAM easily, followed close by HDD and case parts (buttons, panels, connector jacks, glass, etc.).

[Ithanul]

With my computers at home:  PSUs.  But, I run the poor things 24/7 most the time.  Main reason I keep spare PSUs around.

At work:  PSUs and RAM, but these are parts in old Core 2 Duos.  3rd be the headsets, but most likely from how rough combat controllers treat those.

[LogicalDrm]

ODDs (4), HDDs (3) and then mice (2). Rest is 1 or none in my use. I don't count there keyboard that had issues from package and was RMA'd twice, mainly since the 3rd I got was working when I gave it away, after 5 years of heavy use. In-ear plugs are also really, really bad. No matter how high-end the brand is.

[LinusOnLine]

22 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Seagate hard drives specifically. I think I can get a job in their QC department easily with my ability to pick the bad batch of products out by hand.

Same here. For some reason no seagate I have owned last more than just over the warranty. One time I got 3 new seagate drives on the same warranty. My conclusion is simply that seagate drives are horrible. 

[TempestCatto]

Just now, LinusOnLine said:

Same here. For some reason no seagate I have owned last more than just over the warranty. One time I got 3 new seagate drives on the same warranty. My conclusion is simply that seagate drives are horrible. 

That's weird. I've only ever had one Seagate drive fail on me, and that's because I dropped the laptop it was in while it was read/writing data. I wonder if Seagate does the same thing as WD where you have to look at the serial number to confirm which factory it was made in as those drives are actually built better than their others.