Yes - another one - a broken 4.3GB Seagate HDD. It just died in front of me very horribly. The indicator of HDD is always lit, and it's not working anymore....
Just a quick update on what I've lost over the past few months. 1. Intel P4 i845 MSI mobo 2. SiS P4 mobo, with a VIA VT2833 southbridge (i think) 3. Three sticks of 128 DDR266 RAM 4. Two Maxtor 20Gb hdds 5. One Seagate 13Gb hdd 6. One Radeon 9600Pro (ouch) 7. One Geforce FX5600 (not so ouch) 8. An iCute 450W PSU Just thought the thread deserved a bump.
Hm... u guys mentioned many broken hardwares here... I am lazy to talk every single hardware that I lost so I will just list down the COMPUTERS that crashed in my house: Laptops: 1. NEC latop (forgot the model, but I think it is a 1992 newest model): forgot the operation system, it died when i was 10 . Surprisingly the battery still works! 2. ECS A928 (dunno what the heck it is, never heard of the brand b4): it is a Pentium 4 machine... nothing else that I remembered. It kinda totally stop functioning, no even the LED works, a few months ago. B4 that it had a wierd sound to it and smtimes smells like burnt compnent, but anyway it is usable for 3 months like that and then it died. Desktops: 1. Acer Desktop (forgot the model as well): Bought in 1996, died in 1998. Short-circuited due to lightning strike. Clearly fried up very bad as when on a stormy night with plenty of lightning, the power tripped and BILLOWS of smoke rose from the CPU and monitor... my Original Red Alert 2 disc 2 died with it that night. 2. Acer Desktop (once again I forgot the model): Bought right after the one above died... worked on a Win98, Pentium II 800megahertz, killed by my lil bother. My brother short circuited it, still remains a mystery till now. 3. Acer Desktop (ok, this is a recent death so I stil remember the model ) Veriton 5500G: It runs on Windows ME, pentium 4 1.6ghz. Cannot boot up, the circuits are fine and the power supply is still working. I suspect the hard disk and processor are dead. As you can see, I use mainly Acer computers. Hopefully my Acer Aspire 1682WLMi will last till I graduate.
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. (=
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...
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
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.
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!)
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!
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
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.
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.