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Thread ID: 57413	2005-05-02 04:16:00	Hardware reliability poll	vinref (6194)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
351287	2005-05-02 04:16:00	Yes, yes. Another poll. Hopefully this will prove useful for most people as much as it will prove useful for me. This is because I am planning to run quite a few machines and remotely-manage them, and I want to minimise the amount of on-site servicing as much as possible. With no reference to OS and software, in your experience, which hardware is the most unreliable? What was your remedy? Thanks all	vinref (6194)
351288	2005-05-02 04:23:00	Every Optorite drive I sold has been returned as faulty,all just out of warrenty, Replaced them out of my pocket due to the fact it was my call to bundle them with the system packages at the time.Never gonna touch one of those again,cost me a small fortune. Had a few Aopen drives display very weird behaviour, Wont touch them either. Did have a pile of Cyber-drives removed from peoples machines due to premature death, that may reflect more on the amount sold rather then reliabilty though (after all people don't come see me to tell me everything is going fine) Overall the most commen items that have failed in my experience are optical drives,power supplies and motherboards, I have had next to zero returns of items I have sold due to faults if you ignore Optorite drives from the equation.	Metla (12)
351289	2005-05-02 04:37:00	When you buy a brand name make sure it is a good one, as there are plenty of ****ty brands out there all with fancy names and websites. You may be better off not making this so broad, for instance: For a CD/DVD Combo I would use Gigabyte, but for a DVD burner i would go for Pioneer or NEC. Keyboards and mouses both wireless and wired Microsoft wins hands down, I have tried a wireless Genius setup(a well known brand) and it was complete crap.	Rob99 (151)
351290	2005-05-02 04:45:00	I was planning on deliberately not having optical or floppy drives on the client machines, but on second thoughts I should have had that on the poll anyway. Darn! You contribution is valuable however. Thanks.	vinref (6194)
351291	2005-05-02 04:52:00	I had a motherboard fail last year, It's an Asus p4p800se, I took it back to the store and swapped, it, havent had any troubles since, Allthough i have doubts about the usb device that I plugged into the machine when i stoped....	ILikeLinux (1669)
351292	2005-05-02 06:54:00	Never had any probs with ASUS mobos or cd / dvd burners. Acer on the other hand (which I got years AGO). Had nothing but probs. And wont go near anything Acer again. Also HP some of their products stuff up, for no reason (like the photosmart printer I have here). It still goes BUT the power supply is stuffed, so I've been told by HP. When the power supply screws up, it affects the LCD screen on the printer (It brings up garbage text), just by connecting power to this printer. And this Creative digital cam (the previous one) didn't last long. The screen screwed up, BUT still worked. Then I got it replaced even tho it was out of warranty from Creative Oz. Since the shop I got it from wouldn't replace it.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
351293	2005-05-02 07:32:00	Maybe it's blind luck, but I've only ever had one piece of hardware fail completly, and that was a Hard Disk drive (4gb). This Floppy Drive's failed too, but it's not like I use it. This computer's secondary 20x CD-ROM drive is a bit dodgy too. It can't read any burned CDs. However, it reads safedisk CDs perfectly, where the same computer's primary 52x CD-ROM drive fails.	Edward (31)
351294	2005-05-02 10:12:00	Nasty: Aopen optical drives Jetway MBs ECS MBs Apacer ram (or maybe just from that particular supplier :-)) PSUs in HP, Compaq PCs, also Hyena brand Fujitsu HDDs Maxtor HDDs Mitsumi FDDs (panasonics better)	pctek (84)
351295	2005-05-02 23:53:00	well the most comman hardware problem i see is poor power supplys . i suspect a lot of other hardware (and software probs) are caused by poor PSU's . well running a p4 3ghz on a 250 watt PSU is just begging for problems! shops, IT depts cut courners whre they can and PSU's are an easy way to save a few $$$ . . . untill the pc dies of course, but then it a motherboard fault ;) .	tweak'e (69)
351296	2005-05-03 08:30:00	BTC optical drives HP Pavillions (2001 onwards) CHUMYA brand win modems Compaq badged monitors CTX monitors Aopen DVD drives (not dvd rw) Later model Aiptek Cams (2003 onwards) Mustek anything (when they work they are great which is not for long) Epson printers (cu20 40 41 60 61 models)	the highlander (245)
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