Did you ever had a PC part die on you?

[nwhiteman_42]

I had a Corsair TX 750 take a shit for a day.  It wouldn't boot.  Tried with friends PSU and it booted.  Tried TX 750 multiple times.  No luck.  Next day it worked.  Still works to this day but has some really annoying coil wine.

[MatazaNZ]

I had a 360 controller for PC that had the left stick stop responding, left it on my desk for a year. Plugged it in again recently, and it works perfectly. Also 3 of my family's old ps2's. They all stopped working (owned at different times of course) and were replaced with the next, but never thrown out. We dug them up out of the pile of old stuff at some point, and they worked perfectly, so we now have them running if we feel like playing some old games

[iAsuno]

My ps1.

But now it's dead again.

[asim1999]

My PS2, works now but havent used it for 5+ years, sitting there under the old TV in parents' bedroom gathering dust...

[Syntaxvgm]

Quite a few Xbox 360s in here. 

UMad, microsoft?

I think it was 80% of those ordered online initially failed or something like that. Plus the whole dvd drive legal troubles. They ain't mad, they cheap. 

[STRMfrmXMN]

We can't all forget about this.

[SeriouslyMikey]

Hmm. I got an old Xbox 360 controller working by hitting it off the table. Does that count? 

[STRMfrmXMN]

Well, "Leftovers" is my Dad's old desktop with a ton of parts swapped out. It had a ruined Caviar Blue. So he dumped it on the floor and let it sit for a year before I said "Dad, I'm taking your computer."

 

Leftovers has a new PSU, multiple hard drives, 3 OS's (read my sig) and a GT610 because I needed out of VGA.

[Guest]

UMad, microsoft?

 

Sounds like a title for a game on WiiU

[Briggsy]

bought a couple cheap monitors for the office. after a few weeks one of them started acting all funny. the scaler was either getting crossed with a loose wire or something, but either way the screen was getting corrupted if turned off and then on again without unplugging power and video cable first.

 

I had a theory that there was a loose chunk of solder cross connecting the scaler, and if I smacked the **** out of the monitor I could get it to come loose and fall off. So I beat the back of the monitor with my palm a couple dozen times, plugged it in and it no longer had any problems with the scaler going corrupt. been a year and still working without a problem.

 

sometimes oldschool methods work better than an RMA 

[KE2012]

old cathode raytube TV's. A good old hit on the top did wonders.

[Calavera]

Well I have one of those Logitech G400 mice that I've used at home for 2 years, now I need to take my own mouse with me to school so I wrap it up in my bag every time, that wore out the cable rather quick.

 

My dad gave me a soldering iron and showed me how to do it, and I had to do the rest of the wires (about 12)

It worked perfectly, so I put the mouse together again, put a dab of hot glue near the joint and now it'll service me for another few years hopefully.

 

 

Funny thing is that 2 days ago my Sennheiser HD201 cable almost broke in half when I came home, I think it might have been cut off by my Logitech G19 keyboard under which the cable ran.

 

Regardless, fixed it up in 10 minutes.

 

Awesome to learn stuff and being less dependant on others, which my dad has done throughout my childhood, just like I can fix my bike.

[BallGum]

Sennheiser CX475s. They stopped working with intermittent sound in one ear, and low sound in the other. For whatever reason I kept them in my drawer.

A couple weeks layer and they were fine.

They broke recently though. Quite annoyed since they didn't sound half bad, if a little excessively bassy.

[metal_remco]

I had a laptop that for some reason refused to get out of standby mode, a friend of mine accidentally spilled some coffee on the laptop and now it works again.

[elecxonica]

My Lumia 610 at one point wouldn't read my sim (but only my sim) it got up to a week later when I was about to purchase a Nexus 5 I tired it and it worked perfectly fine.

[nick99n]

we have a cell phone that is was dying so we left in a corner of the house

a year later anothre phone broke and i tried to boot the old one and it opened ,my father used it for 6 months after it died again 

[Garuger]

If it does not work i hit if it still does not work again i hit till it works.That techinque most times works

[geforceftw]

I had an old xbox 360 and it had the rrod so i took it apart and put it in the oven and it worked again. I also bricked my phone but was able to fix it.

[Clyne]

Original Gameboy

[Sushicat89]

My gameboy Advance

[DiffikultD]

I just "fixed" my HP w2207h monitor. I bought this thing years ago (2008, 2009?) when it was new, $300+, to serve as my primary PC monitor as well as my (then, also brand new) PS3 display. Loved it. Great color. Sharp, crisp graphics. After a year or so, the OSD menu would just randomly pop up. At first, I could just exit out of it and would stay off. Then it happened more and more frequently, until it would constantly pop up and stay on. It was out of warranty, and web searches didn't yield any solutions.

So I replaced it with a Dell Ultrasharp that I liberated from an employer that was going under. The HP sat in a closet for probably three years while I made due. After a few beers last weekend, I was cleaning house and came across it and thought, "I'm gonna fix this or throw it away." This time, when I searched for a fix, there were TONS of results. "Just pry off the bezel, unplug the connector for the menu buttons. Problem solved." Prying off the bezel was a violent, nerve-racking experience, but one more beer made everything OK. Now I have my dual 22" monitor setup again. No, they don't match, but the Ultrasharp is a very underrated monitor, and the color tones are almost identical between the two, so I'm thrilled.

Excellent topic, BTW.

[LemonSpice]

my headphones and my laptop

[SkilledRebuilds]

My Gigabyte R9 290 (Elpida)

Comes and goes all the time (Cold Boot bugs, Declocking Bugs, Powertune really IS shit, so I disabled it)

*Fixed - Yay for locking down clocks and having no variable voltages no more causing blackscreens and bsod's.

[dat_rock]

Whenever my Nokia Lumia 800 (Windows phone mango/2010) randomly stops I just leave it overnight and it will be working in the morning. Nokia phones are still invincible apparently

[zanduh]

My HP DV6t laptop one day started having tons of issues. Random crashes, keys were firing even without being pressed, graphics driver crashes etc 2 years ago.

 

I completely disassembled every part of the laptop in my dorm's lounge and meticulously cleaned every part and put it back together and it ran fine and still runs fine today