What is your hardware quirk?

[ThinkWithPortals]

Since I installed my new RX 480 NITRO...

- When the PC is booting, the fans spin 100% for a split second. Don't know why.

- After a period of time when I'm AFK (sitting on the desktop, not doing anything) my display turns off even though all of the Windows autosleep settings are turned off.

[minibois]

My headset is just one big mess, it has a beeping noise on the right, sometimes the left cup doesn't give sound and it's just.. SHIT.

Other than that I don't really have any issues with any of my hardware. Well, my mouse sometimes kinda .. lags or skips, but that is likely due to dust inside and is fixed by using a damp q tip on the laser.

[Andrew657nz]

When I turn off my computer sometimes my PC will switch back on again through a mind of its own??

[NinjaJc01]

16 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Since I installed my new RX 480 NITRO...

- When the PC is booting, the fans spin 100% for a split second. Don't know why.

- After a period of time when I'm AFK (sitting on the desktop, not doing anything) my display turns off even though all of the Windows autosleep settings are turned off.

The 100% fan speed is normal, it's the delay while it loads up. Since I installed my 970, it took a little longer.

[ThinkWithPortals]

Just now, NinjaJc01 said:

The 100% fan speed is normal, it's the delay while it loads up. Since I installed my 970, it took a little longer.

Really? Interesting, didn't know that. My old 390 didn't do it, but whatever...

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, ThinkWithPortals said:

Really? Interesting, didn't know that. My old 390 didn't do it, but whatever...

My 970 annoys me because it displays a nvidia BIOS version screen, before handing over to the BIOS, which means the fan speed jumps to 100% to start with, booting takes longer.

[themctipers]

8 hours ago, TheHogSmasher said:

What is your hardware quirk? Little things that kinda break or only work a certain way. Doesn't matter the hardware.

 

In my case, a stereo / dvd combo system that would only be silent if you hit the right fan.

my ssd from early 2016 already has 8tb nand writes.

and 200mb/s preformance  

 

my cpu idles at 60c and loads at 105c

 

my gpu can't overclock a stable 10mhz

[Tech N Gamer]

I have a laptop where if a USB hub is plugged in it won't boot at all, even when you unplug it while it's checking the hardware. You have to unplug the USB hub while the laptop is off.

[NinjaJc01]

2 minutes ago, themctipers said:

my ssd from early 2016 already has 8tb nand writes.

and 200mb/s preformance  

 

my cpu idles at 60c and loads at 105c

 

my gpu can't overclock a stable 10mhz

Since the start of the year, I have downloaded 2.4TB of files. Which is quite entertaining when I have 1.25TB of storage... It's probably killing my SSD.

[themctipers]

Just now, NinjaJc01 said:

Since the start of the year, I have downloaded 2.4TB of files. Which is quite entertaining when I have 1.25TB of storage... It's probably killing my SSD.

i have one partition on my ssd

and i download stuff onto D:/

 

funny enough, my intel 520 (from 2013, which has ~7 OS installs) has only 16tb nand writes.

[NinjaJc01]

Just now, themctipers said:

i have one partition on my ssd

and i download stuff onto D:/

 

funny enough, my intel 520 (from 2013, which has ~7 OS installs) has only 16tb nand writes.

I have an SSHD as well, but as my OS is on my SSD, all of my temporary internet files go on there. I don't know how many NAND writes though.

[Tech N Gamer]

I also forgot, if I clean my monitor (it's brand new Dell 23.8" 1920x1080), one pixel will just stay magenta until I restart Windows, even if I tell the monitor to run pixel persistence clean option, and tell windows to sleep/hibernate/goto lock screen it'll still be their until I restart or shut down the computer.

[vorticalbox]

my Lumia 950 only shows up on USB 2.0 ports, when connected to 3.0 it shows as unknown device.

[ManIkWeet]

The power brick from my PG278Q, now used for my laptop, stops working as soon as I turn off the laptop (and the battery is charged). I have to remove the power brick from the wall socket and wait to get it to work again.

 

One of my USB 3.0 ports on my motherboard randomly makes windows play disconnect/connect sounds whenever there is anything in it, the devices in the port work fine.

 

I have to replug the microphone in my front panel to get the driver (and thus Skype) working again.

 

I used to use a harddrive that "usually works when you boot the system" as a temporary drive (page file, TEMP folder). The drive always spinned perfectly fine but the data connection didn't work, rebooting fixed it sometimes. The drive started to fail more frequently, annoying me so I retired it.

[Mr.Meerkat]

9 hours ago, Gravemind said:

@TheHogSmasher

 

It was a ribbon wire and you couldn't. Believe me, I tried everything to not give myself electroshock therapy each time I wanted to just watch Youtube (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

lies! you've not tried everything...you forgot the most important thing which is getting a new laptop...

 

Anyway, for me, every 6 months, the sensor of my mice gets clogged with dust so...it stops tracking...

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 hour ago, Andrew657nz said:

When I turn off my computer sometimes my PC will switch back on again through a mind of its own??

powercfg -lastwake

[Tech N Gamer]

Just now, Mr.Meerkat said:

lies! you've not tried everything...you forgot the most important thing which is getting a new laptop...

 

Anyway, for me, every 6 months, the sensor of my mice gets clogged with dust so...it stops tracking...

I think everyone has that problem.

[Mr.Meerkat]

Just now, Tech N Gamer said:

I think everyone has that problem.

True...but that's the only thing I can think off so...why not eh?  

[Iron couch]

when i got my MSI R9 380 the fans would only start spinning when the GPU tempature got to 99 Celsius...still have no idea why this is, at the end of the day i just made a fan curve in afterburner and it worked fine.

[Gravemind]

20 hours ago, TheHogSmasher said:

Solder to where it attached to the motherboard. Been there, done that. You need a magnifying glass, a steady hand, a soldering iron, and you need to have a self hatred to do something that painful.

Trust me, that wouldn't have worked. If I still had the laptop I would send you a picture. It really is a miracle how horribly designed that laptop was lol.

[Sors]

21 hours ago, Gravemind said:

@TheHogSmasher

 

Nope, the wire wasn't even an inch long and it was soldered right to the (exposed) pcb. The only option was to literally replace the motherboard, just to have a power button.

A conductive pen, some hot glue, a thin wire. That's how I used to fix ribbon cables many years ago.

 

 

My quirk, Faulty mouse wheels.  Why?  Just why with how cheap a normal mouse is?

[malon]

my pc sometimes likes to "lose'' my 2 wd harddrives after doing a long generic test with seatools for windows, but with other programs i never have that problem, a simple reboot fixes this though.

[CtrlAltELITE]

My old PC used to BSOD trying to boot back from sleep/hibernate. After much troubleshooting I decided it was easier to just disable the sleep function.

[Vivilacqua1]

My psu us kaput and I'm running my pc off of two psu's. It won't run on high load.

[carguy86]

My (old, now probably recycled) laptop will power on if you tap hard on the case next to the charging socket (when it isnt charging, this dosen't work when it is charging) and my tv-decoder wont output to hdmi after being unplugged if you dont touch the case with the metal exterior of the connector on the cable while the decoder is turning on. (This is really weird but it is probably because i have a cheap ass tv and the cheapest decoder that the tv company offered)