I'm interested how many, and what, PC components died, or ceased working on your systems. Include ALL hardware you had to replace, ever since you started using comps. Don't include replaced components that still worked... I'm still making my own list

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[quote=Galahad,Nov 8 2004, 01:40 AM]

For years now, only thing that crashed&died for me was HDD. And for 8 years, how many computers I have, that was happened to me 4 times.

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I have been using computers for about 20 years now and I am fortunate to say that I didn't have that many problems. Here is a list that I will try to make from memory.

3 crashed hard drives
3 mother boards fried
2 video cards wasted
4 ram chips gone
1 power supply
3 dead monitors
2 CD-ROMs busted
1 sound card
1 5 1/4" floppy drive
2 3 1/2" floppy drives
1 fried CPU

that's all I can remember. I don't think its a long list.

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H.D.Ds at most!
and recently Toshiba Laptop's 60GB H.D.D

P.S. WoW! what a detailed list no9t9 !

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I'm just looking at some of the things I managed to save over the years I used computer (10 years to be precise )...

4 HDD's
1 CPU and 1 MB fried
4 CD-ROM's
few memory modules (small ones, ~4Megs)
1 graphix card
1 sound card
1 monitor
few power supplies
counntless 3.5" floppy drives
3 mouses, 3 keyboards (I smashed one keyboard against the wall )

and 1 Commodore 64 with disk drive

I think that about covers it... Components that are available to us in Yugoslavia, are of lower class, and tend to break more often, then components available in rest of Europe...

 

 

 

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Lol not in Holland we have components of 'better' class, but they tend to break too =]... My list:

3 HDD's
1 Soundcart
1 Monitor
2 vid's
5 mouses, 1 keyboard

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Over the past 5 years:
1 HD
3 mice
1 keyboard
1 monitor
1 ethernet card
2 memmory modules

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Over the past 5 years:
1 HD
3 mice
1 keyboard
1 monitor
1 ethernet card
2 memmory modules

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over past 8 years:

2 monitors
1 video card
3 ethernet cards (1 onboard)
2 processors
2 motherboards
3 hard drives


about a bag of crappy ram

Oh yeah and i have a question, what do you do with 10 100mg scsi harddrives? and what do you do with 15 isa token ring cards. ha

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Monitor: one capacitor blew up, made a nice hole through the circuit board
Webcam: No idea, just stopped working
Laptop HDD: Must have overheated in the hot Turkish summer!
Lately my laptop battery is also dying... must have also been the heat...
Desktop HDD: Was the last generation of Quantum Firball hdds, 4 platters and 8 heads I think, so one of the heads started crashing... disk was useless

Apart from that, and faulty components I get from time to time there is nothing else. None of the above were my faults as well now that I look at it, just faulty components or something failing...

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