The PC Hardware Graveyard - Page 6

Maximus_Detritus · 20th Nov 2005, 05:20 PM

You;d think with all that prior experience, you'd have learnt not to use ACER

Although one instance isnt ACER's fault. Peaz had a bad experience with ACER customer service a few months back, and its in an article on the main ARP site. (=

vccy118 · 20th Nov 2005, 05:42 PM

well, same as me actually... my faulty DVD dual cannot be replaced... and my dad spent a whole afternoon at the Acer factory at KL there... shyt shyt...

zy · 20th Nov 2005, 09:45 PM

wow.. you love acer so much ?

i dont trust acer that much ..

first acer pc .. powered by AMD 386

.. i killed the hard disk not long ago ...
the pc still runs but i cant find any good component to ruin with it .. LOL ..
no replace ment hard disk .. the BIOS does not reconize hard disk larger than 2gb

Max_87 · 25th Oct 2006, 11:22 PM

R.I.P. Opty 144

R.I.P. Opty 144 :(

The_YongGrand · 25th Oct 2006, 11:40 PM

I have one Asus VX-97 which I killed its BIOS when doing the hot-flashing (silly me, I put the chip upside down!!) and the board is dead without a proper BIOS chip.

Some broken harddisks. And some broken power-supplies.

redness · 26th Oct 2006, 09:29 AM

I thought this thread was about where to dump old hardware when it expire. I woundn't mind doing some dumpster diving for spare parts. heh

Past Heroes:
Intel 386
Intel 486 DX100
Cyrix 133Mhz
Intel P100
AMD 700Mhz

Past Supporting Heroes
5" Floppy Disk Drive
100MB Seagate
4GB Quantum Fireball
6GB Quantum Medalist
8.4GB Seagate Baraccuda
20GB Western Digital
24x AOpen CDRom
48X Liteon CDRom

Soon to be dead Hero
80GB Western Digital (damn bad sectors)

Longest Lasting Hero
8x Sony CDRom (she still works!)

peaz · 26th Oct 2006, 05:23 PM

Hmm does the DVD+RW drive of my notebook count? LOL

Stupid DVDRW drive. those early generations of Notebook DVDRW drive really sucks. THe external drive i bought is like 10000000x better than it is. Even when reading CDs!

Papercut · 26th Oct 2006, 06:37 PM

RIP 6600GT

Died quite some time back but I have yet to pay tribute to it. Might have given the world #1 a run for its money if it had not died prematurely

Oh well, time to dissect it and sell it off to spare parts hunters

The_YongGrand · 26th Oct 2006, 10:15 PM

I have the Benq CDRW drive I bought almost 4 years ago from PCFair and that thing worked erratically after two years of minimal usage. By this year, even worse, the CDRW drive had eaten up 2 of my CDRWs and numerous CDs. The mechanisms in the CDR drive is so mangled beyond recognition.

Prashiyer · 13th Mar 2008, 08:43 PM

Some very funny posts here.
---Well one of my hard disk which happens to be a seagate 160GB has almost crashed(almost because data can still be recovered) and my other one which i am using now is on the verge of deserting me.
---I dumped two of my lg cd-rw which i destroyed because i was annoyed of its antics and one is lg cd-rom which does not read most cds.

20th Nov 2005, 05:20 PM	#51 (permalink)
Maximus_Detritus Moderator Join Date: 14 Sep 2004 Location: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Posts: 2,127 Reputation: 242 Rep Power: 8	You;d think with all that prior experience, you'd have learnt not to use ACER Although one instance isnt ACER's fault. Peaz had a bad experience with ACER customer service a few months back, and its in an article on the main ARP site. (= __________________ Ceramic White PSP - 3.52M33-4, Metallic Blue PSP - 3.52M33-4 ARP Reviewer PlayStation Network : Maximus_Detritus

20th Nov 2005, 05:42 PM	#52 (permalink)
vccy118 I'm a regular Join Date: 20 Apr 2005 Location: Bintulu, Miri-study(Curtin University) Posts: 357 Reputation: 48 Rep Power: 4	well, same as me actually... my faulty DVD dual cannot be replaced... and my dad spent a whole afternoon at the Acer factory at KL there... shyt shyt... __________________ Acer Aspire Series 1682WLMi Pentium M 725 Processor (1.6Ghz) with Centrino Technology Ati Mobility 9700 Radeon 64mb 60 GB 2.5" Serial ATA Hard Disk 256 mb DDR Ram + Kingston 512 mb DDR RAM Dvd(-R) Dual Combo X4 max write speedworks just fine 24-bit Sound Blaster Live! External 5.1 Logitech X-530 5.1(70 watt RMS) speakers

20th Nov 2005, 09:45 PM	#53 (permalink)
zy Dead Join Date: 16 Dec 2002 Location: Penang,Malaysia - Buffalo,New York Posts: 12,798 Reputation: 1998 Rep Power: 37	wow.. you love acer so much ? i dont trust acer that much .. first acer pc .. powered by AMD 386 .. i killed the hard disk not long ago ... the pc still runs but i cant find any good component to ruin with it .. LOL .. no replace ment hard disk .. the BIOS does not reconize hard disk larger than 2gb __________________ current: P4-3.2\|P4P800-Deluxe\|512x4-DDR\|NV6600 WD2500KS\|WD5000AAKS\|AD-7191A\|1860NX\|Z2300\|MP470 home (malaysia): P4C-2.6@3.1-StockHSF\|AI7\|256x2-BT-D43\|512x2-DT-D43\|A9600XT-VIVO WD1200JB\|2xWD2500KS\|DRU-800A\|DVD-E616P\|LTR-52327S\|152x\|V.S.4121\|iP1500 laptop: M1210\|T7200\|2GBDDR667\|160GB5K160\|GO7400

25th Oct 2006, 11:22 PM	#54 (permalink)
Max_87 h@x! Join Date: 11 Aug 2003 Location: Sarawak, Malaysia. Posts: 10,997 Reputation: 1809 Rep Power: 34	R.I.P. Opty 144 R.I.P. Opty 144 :( __________________ Max_87 Tech ARP http://www.techarp.com Intel E8400 @ 4.2GHz / Abit IP35 Pro / G.Skill F2-8000CL5-4GBPQ / Radeon X1800 / Seagate 7200.9 120GB / 7200.10 320GBx2 / WD5000AAKS / Silverstone ST56F

25th Oct 2006, 11:40 PM	#55 (permalink)
The_YongGrand Super Active Join Date: 12 Feb 2005 Location: Somewhere in 甲洞... Posts: 2,111 Reputation: 668 Rep Power: 12	I have one Asus VX-97 which I killed its BIOS when doing the hot-flashing (silly me, I put the chip upside down!!) and the board is dead without a proper BIOS chip. Some broken harddisks. And some broken power-supplies. __________________ Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2140, 2GB DDR2-667 RAM, Asus P5NSLI, Sapphire ATi Radeon HD4850 512MB DDR3 AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 2GB DDR2-667 RAM, Biostar Geforce 6100 AM2, Galaxy Geforce 7300GT

26th Oct 2006, 09:29 AM	#56 (permalink)
redness Getting there Join Date: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 178 Reputation: 156 Rep Power: 4	I thought this thread was about where to dump old hardware when it expire. I woundn't mind doing some dumpster diving for spare parts. heh Past Heroes: Intel 386 Intel 486 DX100 Cyrix 133Mhz Intel P100 AMD 700Mhz Past Supporting Heroes 5" Floppy Disk Drive 100MB Seagate 4GB Quantum Fireball 6GB Quantum Medalist 8.4GB Seagate Baraccuda 20GB Western Digital 24x AOpen CDRom 48X Liteon CDRom Soon to be dead Hero 80GB Western Digital (damn bad sectors) Longest Lasting Hero 8x Sony CDRom (she still works!) __________________ Yes, I am whoring myself out to Jumboplay.

26th Oct 2006, 05:23 PM	#57 (permalink)
peaz ARP Webmaster Join Date: 13 Oct 2002 Location: http://atpeaz.placidthoughts.com/ Posts: 8,487 Reputation: 1633 Rep Power: 30	Hmm does the DVD+RW drive of my notebook count? LOL Stupid DVDRW drive. those early generations of Notebook DVDRW drive really sucks. THe external drive i bought is like 10000000x better than it is. Even when reading CDs! __________________ Ken Ng Tech ARP Visit my web gallery - Ken's Digital Canvas Shoot and Earn Money from Stock Photography Sterling@PJ Community Forums

26th Oct 2006, 10:15 PM	#59 (permalink)
The_YongGrand Super Active Join Date: 12 Feb 2005 Location: Somewhere in 甲洞... Posts: 2,111 Reputation: 668 Rep Power: 12	I have the Benq CDRW drive I bought almost 4 years ago from PCFair and that thing worked erratically after two years of minimal usage. By this year, even worse, the CDRW drive had eaten up 2 of my CDRWs and numerous CDs. The mechanisms in the CDR drive is so mangled beyond recognition. __________________ Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2140, 2GB DDR2-667 RAM, Asus P5NSLI, Sapphire ATi Radeon HD4850 512MB DDR3 AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 2GB DDR2-667 RAM, Biostar Geforce 6100 AM2, Galaxy Geforce 7300GT

13th Mar 2008, 08:43 PM	#60 (permalink)
Prashiyer Newbie Join Date: 5 Mar 2008 Posts: 10 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Awesome thread Some very funny posts here. ---Well one of my hard disk which happens to be a seagate 160GB has almost crashed(almost because data can still be recovered) and my other one which i am using now is on the verge of deserting me. ---I dumped two of my lg cd-rw which i destroyed because i was annoyed of its antics and one is lg cd-rom which does not read most cds.