Overthinking two peripheral issues?

[msrosebud]

So a few days ago I had a monitor completely kick the bucket, it started randomly flickering colors up and down, and the power button didn't work to turn if off, so I unplugged and replugged, followed all the steps I saw online, no dice, it won't turn on. It was about 4-5 years old, so it sucks but wasn't entirely out of the realm of possibility.

But then today, I turn on my PC and my microphone isn't turning on either (HyperX Quadcast X) I try to follow the steps but it won't even show up in device manager. I try plugging it into a different PC and still no dice. Both of these devices had been having issues (monitor always had an issue with being at its max hz and would do a similar color flickering, mic in recent months needed to be replugged after the PC turned on) and the rest of my peripherals and everything have had no issues.

I guess my worry right now is I don't know if this is just bad luck or if something worse is going on like a bad mobo (x570 AORUS Elite WIFI, system is about 4 years old). I don't really know what to do or how to proceed and any help would be incredibly appreciated......

[Zenny232323]

13 minutes ago, msrosebud said:

So a few days ago I had a monitor completely kick the bucket, it started randomly flickering colors up and down, and the power button didn't work to turn if off, so I unplugged and replugged, followed all the steps I saw online, no dice, it won't turn on. It was about 4-5 years old, so it sucks but wasn't entirely out of the realm of possibility.

But then today, I turn on my PC and my microphone isn't turning on either (HyperX Quadcast X) I try to follow the steps but it won't even show up in device manager. I try plugging it into a different PC and still no dice. Both of these devices had been having issues (monitor always had an issue with being at its max hz and would do a similar color flickering, mic in recent months needed to be replugged after the PC turned on) and the rest of my peripherals and everything have had no issues.

I guess my worry right now is I don't know if this is just bad luck or if something worse is going on like a bad mobo (x570 AORUS Elite WIFI, system is about 4 years old). I don't really know what to do or how to proceed and any help would be incredibly appreciated......

4 years old is pretty old for a system. Realistically, It's not a wild thought that your peripherals just, kick the bucket naturally. You usually start to see some problems about this much time in.
If your microphone is also 4 years old, I wouldn't be surprised it also has issues.
You can try stuff like a diffrent cable, port on the motherboard and maybe update the drivers. But after that, your options are either try and get it fixed or buy something else.

[Hinjima]

2 minutes ago, Zenny232323 said:

4 years old is pretty old for a system. Realistically, It's not a wild thought that your peripherals just, kick the bucket naturally. You usually start to see some problems about this much time in.
If your microphone is also 4 years old, I wouldn't be surprised it also has issues.
You can try stuff like a diffrent cable, port on the motherboard and maybe update the drivers. But after that, your options are either try and get it fixed or buy something else.

4 years is not old for a system or monitor at all.. What are you talking about?

[Zenny232323]

20 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

4 years is not old for a system or monitor at all.. What are you talking about?

I've been told 4-5 years is about average for electronics. I guess I was misinformed?

 

[Hinjima]

10 minutes ago, Zenny232323 said:

I've been told 4-5 years is about average for electronics. I guess I was misinformed?

 

Maybe for cheaper products bought on Wish.com but overall I would say electronics will last a lot longer than that.

Especially computer components.

Most popular GPU on Steam Hardware Survay for 2024 was 3060, this released 4 years ago.

Many people are still running on CPU's from 2011-2015.

The GTX 1060 released in 2016, thousands of people are still rocking this bad boy.

 

Decent PSU's come with 10-12 year warranties right? 

 

Good quality speakers can easily last 40-50 years.

Average lifespan of a monitor is 10-20 years if used around 8 hours a day.

 

Of course components can fail, it happens. But I would say electronics can last quite a lot longer than 4-5 years.

 

I could go on

[Zenny232323]

3 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

Maybe for cheaper products bought on Wish.com but overall I would say electronics will last a lot longer than that.

Especially computer components.

Most popular GPU on Steam Hardware Survay for 2024 was 3060, this released 4 years ago.

Many people are still running on CPU's from 2011-2015.

The GTX 1060 released in 2016, thousands of people are still rocking this bad boy.

 

Decent PSU's come with 10-12 year warranties right? 

 

Good quality speakers can easily last 40-50 years.

Average lifespan of a monitor is 10-20 years if used around 8 hours a day.

 

Of course components can fail, it happens. But I would say electronics can last quite a lot longer than 4-5 years.

 

I could go on

I see, yeah that makes more sense when I think about it. Well, the more you know, thank you.

Well, coming back to the original proble, maybe the moba or/and cable are the problem?

[Hinjima]

Just now, Zenny232323 said:

I see, yeah that makes more sense when I think about it. Well, the more you know, thank you.

Well, coming back to the original proble, maybe the moba or/and cable are the problem?

We learn by asking questions!  No Problem.

 

Agreed, lets go back to the problem that OP is having.

Sounds like OP has been hit by a series of unfortunate events..

 

@msrosebud I will check back tomorrow and see if you have gotten help / fixed your issue.

Its 3AM here and I desperately need sleep.

 

 

[kb5zue]

1 hour ago, Hinjima said:

Maybe for cheaper products bought on Wish.com but overall I would say electronics will last a lot longer than that.

Especially computer components.

Most popular GPU on Steam Hardware Survay for 2024 was 3060, this released 4 years ago.

Many people are still running on CPU's from 2011-2015.

The GTX 1060 released in 2016, thousands of people are still rocking this bad boy.

 

Decent PSU's come with 10-12 year warranties right? 

 

Good quality speakers can easily last 40-50 years.

Average lifespan of a monitor is 10-20 years if used around 8 hours a day.

 

Of course components can fail, it happens. But I would say electronics can last quite a lot longer than 4-5 years.

 

I could go on

I will agree with you on the speakers.  I have a pair of Bose 901's that I bought while stationed at Korat, Thailand back at the end of the Vietnam conflict and they still work like new.  No complaints at all.

[msrosebud]

2 hours ago, Hinjima said:

We learn by asking questions!  No Problem.

 

Agreed, lets go back to the problem that OP is having.

Sounds like OP has been hit by a series of unfortunate events..

 

@msrosebud I will check back tomorrow and see if you have gotten help / fixed your issue.

Its 3AM here and I desperately need sleep.

 

 

I think what I determined is the only two things that broke were already having issues, and if it was a mobo shorting then something else likely would've been affected, like my 6-8 year old mouse or something. So what I've done is swapped the cords and have new peripherals in (with warranties to be safe) and will just proceed as is. I genuinely think it's just bad luck, but I just panicked bc of how weird it was. Thank you all so much for the advice/help, yall are wonderful

[Hinjima]

7 hours ago, msrosebud said:

I think what I determined is the only two things that broke were already having issues, and if it was a mobo shorting then something else likely would've been affected, like my 6-8 year old mouse or something. So what I've done is swapped the cords and have new peripherals in (with warranties to be safe) and will just proceed as is. I genuinely think it's just bad luck, but I just panicked bc of how weird it was. Thank you all so much for the advice/help, yall are wonderful

I agree with you.  As I said above, you had a series of unfortunate events.

If the motherboard was shorting something you would see more issues in my opinion.

 

Good luck to you! Hope all goes well with the new peripherals

Just keep an eye on things for the first few days.