Did you ever had a PC part die on you?

[Eyal]

A few bad HDD's (probably damaged in shipping), AIO liquidcooler that came leaking, a bad DDR1, and DDR3 RAM stick, a monitor with serious light leak, and a phone that died after 3 days (but it was a phone my mom bought against my advice in the supermarket for $50) are the ones came bad.

I killed a 60GB SSD (but I abused it with heavy workloads and I'm not surprised it died), I had a few SD cards and one flashdrive dying on me over the years. And my brother killed his 9800GT..

But I buy a lot of hardware, so it's more likely something will go wrong..

[-TesseracT-]

Everyone has killed a hard drive by dropping it.

Nope

[LemonSpice]

i just did it with molex to test your theory and the hdd and the psu still works 

hmm i guess it must have been an error because sata power has hot swap capabilities but molex shouldn't but what the hey if it works that's awesome.

[TheRagingGamer]

hmm i guess it must have been an error because sata power has hot swap capabilities but molex shouldn't but what the hey if it works that's awesome.

just so you know what happens. If you have a hdd connected and unplug it it still stays in the "My computer" but you can't access it. And if you power on the hdd while in windows nothing happens except the hdd starts spinning 

[yttrium]

I had a Logitech mouse, my old MX1100, fail on me after three years... kind of. The left click was sometimes double clicking. After doing testing to prove it was hardware under a bunch of different scenarios, Logitech support sent me a brand new Performance Mouse MX (MX1100 was no longer made, so they sent me the next best equivalent, which was actually like top of the line compared to my mid-range mouse) for free, no questions asked.

 

My Caviar Black from an old HP machine from 2005 finally began to fail late last year. I turned it off and put it somewhere safe for archival - data can be pulled if needed, but sectors are beginning to fail big time and I can't boot from it.

 

That's it though. Nothing has outright failed. Maybe I'm just wise with what I purchase, but all of my monitors still work, all of my keyboards still work, I've never lost hardware to static, and the only DOA item I've ever gotten was a used RAM module from someone on eBay, but I'm pretty sure that one was their fault.

 

Am I lucky?

 

[bosfreak]

Everyone has killed a hard drive by dropping it.

When i dropped a hard drive (the same i broke later by connecting it to a working psu) it only damaged the floor

[Kimmaz]

My hdd developed amnesia one time,, every time I restarted my pc, it would forget/loose bits of data, and new data would also not get stored on it. when windows update screwed it all up, as the pc would forget it installed them, and then it would install it again, and again,, and so on ,,, lol

[RoninComputers]

I've had a Titan Black turn up DOA after i bought it off of eBay.  Now I know why it was only 300 bucks. <_<

[Finn1744]

im using a laptop and it currently has a messed up mobo that isnt recognizing the battery so it needs to be plugged in to use it

[Zolon]

I had an prebuild pc from Medion, and the motherboard and failed, luckily within warranty, and they replaced it. One year later, once the warranty was over the psu blew and took every component with it. Also, a 5 year old crappy OEM hdd died on me. Luckily, that was everything so far.

[Guest]

Yes.

LEDs on my K70

My HP mouse. (came with a pre-built)

A cheap headset.

A PSP...

An Age of Empires II disk.

And some other things I can't remember.

[bigbrain890]

I have had a PC part die on me, but nothing like a DOA or dead in a couple days. The mechanical hard drive in my laptop lasted a good 4 years before it platter crashed (thank god I had it all backed up). It just gave me an excuse to go get an SSD 

[Botasky]

2 GPU 3 Mainboard 

[Toasted Waffles]

All of my 25 Razer products lol.

 

However my all time favorite item is my old gtx 260 from BFG. That old card is kicking like no time is left and is out preforming the lower cards today lol. I do have a massive heat sink on the beast but it has no ram heat sinks as they all fell off. The card hits around 120c during game play and has been like that for about 4 years now. I nicknamed it "Old Timer" and it still goes around 30fps on BF4 on all ultra lol but dips a ton :c #stillbetterthannextgen

[vt3c]

There's always that one piece of technology and/or appliance/car that has been broken for a certain amount of time and you simply stopped using. This thread is dedicated to that. 

 

What is one piece of technology you've had break, was a major inconvenience, but got back working and fell in love with again?

For me, it was my old HP. It stopped booting so it sat in the closet for literally 6 months untouched. Turns out, me being 12 at the time, I didn't try reinstalling windows. I did and it worked like a charm. I used it for a few months after that before giving it to my grandpa.

[Levent]

my 360(didnt used it for 8 months ,wanted to play forza4 but shit didnt boot) but i kicked it few times before it decided to work again.

[MasterRaceFanBoy]

the gtx 280 im using right now, had it in a box for an year, i was using a GT 7600.. and i cleaned some things up, so i found it and it works perfectly now. even in heavy benchmarks, oc to 702 and so on. lol

[kuzimins]

my psu failed, and after 2 weeks it was fine again and run for like 1.5 years before i replaced it.

[Altecice]

my 360(didnt used it for 8 months ,wanted to play forza4 but shit didnt boot) but i kicked it few times before it decided to work again.

 

Percussive maintenance thats called

 

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I used to work in a computer repair shop I got countless laptops in that where 'dead'. You would be surprised at what a battery removal and a clear CMOS can do.

[Mixzzz]

My old AM3 motherboard... It just died one day and didnt want to boot no matter what I did(pulling out RAM, checking connectors, changing PSUs) And now it works again Put it to use again with my old Athlon II x2 245e as a media box

[Savant]

My old AM3 motherboard... It just died one day and didnt want to boot no matter what I did(pulling out RAM, checking connectors, changing PSUs) And now it works again Put it to use again with my old Athlon II x2 245e as a media box

My 360.

[vt3c]

Quite a few Xbox 360s in here. 

UMad, microsoft?

[terrytek]

My old pizza box of a Compaq from like 1998. Trying to turn that into a file server. If only I had a molex splitter and a 4TB hard drive.

[Syntaxvgm]

The xbox 360. A friends red ringed. While I was getting prepared to fix it, I slapped it really hard and it worked. Sometimes the motherboard actually bends and gets stuck on those old ones, vs needing a reflow. This is why people were under the impression that new thermal compound and/or washers fixed all red rings- the process of removing the heatsink and reattaching it released it. 

[Cloud09]

My gameboy advance was riding my scooter and dropped in the dogs water bowl. So took out the battery and left on top of the fridge for 1 week and it works perfectly even to this day.

 

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