Poll: Hardware failure!

[The Spectator]

Only a PC had died on me. The laptop attract more dust than I thought it would and it covered the heatsink with it. -.-

Just got the 360 in january. Plenty of time for it to die.

 

[gbemery]

I first bought a 360 a year after they came out...it died 4 days after I got it. I returned it to the store and waited awhile to get another. About a year down the road I bought another one. It lasted for alittle more than 2 years than E74'd on me right after I got done with MW2. I sent it in and they sent me a new one, alot quieter than my old one, and it has been running strong for about 2 months now. So i guess we'll see how long it holds up.

 

[Plinglebob]

I've had my PC die on me a few of times. Twice was because Windows screwed up and once was because the power supply blew up. Thankfully it was easy enough to fix it all.

 

[Shadeovblack]

I just replaced the power supply in my secondary computer. I've had it about four years but all the dust around here did it in.

 

[The_Healer]

No yellow light but my Blu-Ray drive died on me. Replaced it myself for around $110 so not tooooooooo bad.

I recommend fixing it yourself as long as you don't have Parkinson's.

Oh look 1k posts....

HOORAAAYY!

Grats on the 1k! Happy to have it be my thread.

Thanks for responding directly to my thread. That's what I was thinking, but I am having a hard time acquiring a Heat Gun. Not a common item. They cost about 50 bucks to buy too and I wouldn't have any other use for it. Maybe melting someones face but meh.

I am happy its not the BD laser. Although it is just another thing to worry about if I get my MOBO fixed, that could go bad at any time and there is nothing I could do to prevent it.

Yeah the BD laser was certainly annoying. Broke on the day I bought Infamous as well...

Hmm a heat gun eh... I'm sure theres one on ebay or something. Otherwise you could beg to rent one from somewhere for a lesser price.

 

[smudgey]

My Wii had a GPU failure, red and green pixels all over the screen. It still played games, but was really distracting. Covered by warranty, Ninty sent a new Wii. Only took them about a week, which was good.

 

[Gauntes]

yeah... I think the PCs are the most Death Prone 'consoles' that I own... still has the record crash rate.

 

[slowpoke999]

I have a PC with vista and my cousin has an x-box 360, we've had them roughly the same time.
His died twice, mine has never died, and only had one BSOD, it was when I installed a new graphics card with incorrect drivers.

 

[B-ray]

yeah... I think the PCs are the most Death Prone 'consoles' that I own... still has the record crash rate.

Not even, if you know what you're doing then it won't die

 

[FireFly90]

my pc's harddrive failed recently, but i managed to get all my stuff off it before it realy got bad.

 

[Aesir23]

It happened. After 2 years and 8 months, my PS3 got the YLOD. I have found a fix that requires me to open the machine up and use a technique called reflowing on the motherboard which is supposed to resuscitate the processors and then replace the thermal paste and put it all back together. I wish I saw this coming. Driving home from work today I remembered a comment I made to myself while playing a game. I said, "The PS3 has gotten a bit louder than I remember." DUR ITS OVERHEATING YOU ASSHOLE! If it was a PC I would have figured it out and took the preemptive measures but for some reason, I though my PS3 was invincible. So now I have 3 options.

Fix it myself. Totally doable, just need to get a hold of a Heat Gun.

Send it to Sony. 150 bucks, the probably just send me a refurbished system. This worries me because I want the 60gb version and I don't know if they will send me that. I like my backwards compatibility. Also I hear they don't back up your saved data which I would have to do myself using someone's PS3.

Send it to another repair facility. I found www.videogame911.com. They seem pretty good and I will probably go with them over sending it to Sony. They will be cheaper, back up my saves for me and send me back MY system with the new parts it needs. Hopefully with better thermal paste.

Last whine: of all the things Sony went cheap on to make the system cheaper, they made em with shitty thermal paste. All I have read on other YLOD threads is how bad the original systems thermal paste was and how it would dry out way to soon and cause the overheating. The choice to chose shitty thermal paste instead of higher quality stuff is causing the YLOD. Otherwise, the system would probably have practically no hardware failures.

So I just want to hear your guys' YLOD stories. RROD stories are alright too but I care more about PS3 stuff cause that is the situation I am dealing with now.

Sounds like the same fix I tried to do with my old 360. Take the machine apart, replace the thermal paste, etc. I wish I'd known about videogame911 back then. But, I don't regret buying an Elite since I love it.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

I am on my third and a half 360 atm.

Current PC has failed twice - GFX card died (but it was due and upgrade so not fussed) and one of the HD's died.

 

[Tuddle]

My PS3 just got the yellow light of death like two days ago.
The only time something went wrong (video game console wise) for me.

My Cousin had to replaced his X-box about 5 times.

My Uncle had to replaced his X-box about 3 times.

My PC is crap and I am surprised it has lasted this long.

Wii for me and my Uncle is doing just fine and no problumes yet!

 

[Zacharine]

Had a PC die on my a couple of times.

Once it was a HDD failure. Something went kapow and suddenly keeping the HDD connected resulted in the system being unable to find any HDD.

Quickly resolved and because I have backups on all my important data, no real harm done.

Second time, my PSU went out with a bang. It had served faithfully for 7 years and apparently the new graphics card I had bought was too much for it. Cue in an overload in the PSU and a short circuit in the GPU, resulting in actual flames inside the casing. Quick thinking, pulled powercord and a mattress to extinguish it ensured no secondary and tertiary damages. GPU got replaced due to warranty, bought a new, slightly more powerful PSU. Total cost: 40?, including bus ticket to city centre and back and a week with the older GPU.

 

[mikecoulter]

My 360 failed once, had it replaced the day after with a Jasper unit for free. I love Gamestation.

 

[acer840]

PS3 YLOD, original 60gb. Out of warranty with Sony, and in Australia it's damn near impossible to find a repair store that will let it on the premises let alone repair it. Bought the new slim version. Still have the brick tho.

 

[koichan]

My PC died on me a couple of weeks ago, a nasty virus killed my hard drive, and then killed my mobo, vid card, and processor. Nasty virus.

Um, how is that even possible?

Corrupting a HDD i can easily see happening (easy to fix too, just reformat and re-install), but actually breaking hardware?

Anyways
Unless hardware is put together badly (like the original 360 RRoD thing) the parts most likely to break on any system are the mechanical parts: the HDD and optical drives.

Optical drives in consoles seem a bit more susceptible than PCs, due to the orders-of-magnitude extra usage they get on consoles, vice-versa for PCs.

the only PC/console components i've had break that wasn't a HDD or optical drive is a few power supplies from a bad power surge we got once, but you can't blame that on the hardware...

 

[dududf]

My PC died on me a couple of weeks ago, a nasty virus killed my hard drive, and then killed my mobo, vid card, and processor. Nasty virus.

Um, how is that even possible?

It somehow turned off the fans and it melted my vid card, my processer failed( not sure how), and some how my Bios broke.

I lost about 350 bucks when that happened.

 

[xXCrocmonXx]

My 360 has never RROD'd. Well, actually, that's a lie.

My 360's disc tray has been the problem for a long while now. It at first would chew on any old XBOX game, leaving scrapes and scratches everywhere. I sent it in while the warranty worked, and it RROD's while it's being repaired. Hooray!

Now it's been at the local Play-N-Trade for a week now (the technician of this local branch is only payed enough to be in on Wednesdays and Saturdays... FFS.) to get fixed for it not spinning the disc when it's holding a CD unless I'm beating the shit out of it.

My 360 is a launch model, and is hardcore failure. But, it's got character. My PCs... Well, Mom claims I've got a black thumb with the things. xD

 

[TheColdHeart]

My 360 got the RROD after about 2 years, was still under the warranty so that got fixed although since the repairs I swear it's about 3 times louder.

I had a PC die on me before too, the fan on the graphics card had stopped working and was over heating and crashing the PC. (I bought a new fan and thought all was well). Then one day it just wouldn't turn on. I found out the problem eventually after checking everything, when I went to take the graphics card out I couldn't as the whole graphics card had warped and actually cracked the motherboard.