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About LinkBacksI almost forgot, A Samsung 52x CD rom drive that never worked and neither did it's replacement. I sent it back to the 'tin pot' firm I bought it from and never heard about it again or got a refund !
I almost forgot, A Samsung 52x CD rom drive that never worked and neither did it's replacement. I sent it back to the 'tin pot' firm I bought it from and never heard about it again or got a refund !
You know something? I had a Hiper Type-R 580W, which I RMA'd with Hiper after having owned it for 24 months. I still had problems, and I reckon it took out the motherboard and processor. Have now bought a Corsair HX620 and will be getting shut of the replacement unit that Hiper posted meOriginally Posted by Ciber
ECS K7s5a, two of which blew up on me, although mainly due to my fumbled attempts at overclocking...
K9AG Neo2-Digital currently being used as an a4 paper weight
Edimax USB wifi adapters, I've had two now (didn't learn my lesson the first time) both died within weeks of purchasing
ECS K7S5A. Awful, just awful. I had my xp2000+ underclocked to 1.25GHz to get it to work.
Bah
An Advent laptop. Off the top of my head, the model number was 7016. Dad bought it in 2002 or 2003. It went through five sticks of ram in a couple of years, and then the screen snapped in half one day. It's not like I was using it to bludgeon people. There was no support for it at all, so I couldn't find any new drivers. I had to use Omega Drivers for the Mobility Radeon 9000.
I needed a fan controller fairly quickly so I bought the only one available in Maplin at the time. It automatically controlled the fan speed depending on the temperature picked up by its sensors. Unfortunately, it set the fans to full power at a very low temperature, something like 23*C, and there was no way to change the values. The only thing you could change was the alarm temperature. Completely useless.
ATI Rage Fury Maxx god what a pile of ****e, needed different drivers for different games, cost the earth. Never bought an ATI card since
ASRock K7NF2-Raid motherboard, bought because I couldn't fit more stuff in my shuttle. When I got it, it was the only NF2 motherboard I could find new. First one died about halfway through the warranty period, second one died just after it had expired. Not amused, especially as the second time it seemed to want to take the graphics card with it.
It did give me the wonderful excuse to jump from an Athlon 2500+ to an Intel Q6600 though...
If you can't keep up, stick with reality...
I can't believe I'd forgotten about mine...I have a 7017 sitting around here, bought in 2003 I think. It also had an amazing zero softare support in its lifetime, I had to use omega drivers to make it run any games - I had it as a desktop replacement for uni. It also throttled itself under full load since the 3.06GHz P4 was too hot for it to handle, and after it clogged itself up with dust it did this almost constantly and became pretty useless. The battery also lost most of it's life within a year but cost ~£80 to replace so I never did. It's also a backbreaker of a laptop, I don't think anybody is ever going to convince me to buy another desktop replacement.
Compro TV card, absolute rubbish - it would only work with MCE if you started Nero Home first!!!
oh aCompro support sucks, 5 emails submitted through their own website and not a single answer
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an ati radeon 9200se (at the time I thought it meant second or special in a good way edition), degraded over time and ended up with artefacts galore.
Also a belkin wireless card F5D7000 or something like that dropped out every 3 mins when it was working.
Allegedly I've built hundreds if not thousands of lowend systems based on their products, VX/TX/BX Pro etc.
Remember I said allegedly!
Hardware I've owned, lets see...
Epson inkjet printer, never worked even after RMA.
XFX 6800GT AGP 8x, was built on a 6800NU PCB and had a lower memory clock.
Abit BX6 R2, didn't like my Adaptec SCSI card and always crashed with the 4th DIMM socket populated.
Abit KT7A-RAID, bad caps.
Gigabyte 8IEXP 1.2, bad caps, died.
Gigabyte 8KNXP 2.0, replacement for above, died oneday.
Antec PSU's, had a few that went bang just after warranty had expired.
I'm sure there have been more, but these stickout to me.
I think we have a winner.
Add me to the list of PC Chips haters - what a waste of material they where.
Add to that any Wireless networking product (except maybe my Edimax hi-gain usb adaptors) as they never work 100% of the time. The number of times I've had to go round friends to sort out their wireless networks. (Can I have those weeks wasted back thanks!).
Seagate hard disk around 1988.
A whopping 32 megabyte (don't laugh you young people) SCSI drive that cost hundreds. After a matter of weeks the heads would start sticking to the platters, so it would take a few times to power up. Eventually you had to take the drive out, carefully twist it in your hand until you heard the faint "crack" of the heads un-sticking and then quickly get it powered up and backed up (assuming the heads were still on the servo arms) before sending it off for replacement once again. The breaking point was when I hadn't backed up for a couple of days and the following day, to get to my work, I had to take the top off the drive and carefully place my fingers on the metal hub in the middle to turn the platters around to unstick it, making sure not to touch the platters or introduce and dust etc into the case.
I think I got through 4 under warranty, until I gave up and replaced it with a Quantum. Probably still have that somewhere
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