Hardware Failure Stories
Users share personal anecdotes about computer and laptop hardware failures, including causes like static electricity, bad capacitors, dust buildup, and fixes such as replacing fuses, cleaning, or percussive maintenance.
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I killed a hard drive when I swapped motherboards about 15 years ago. I suspect static electricity.
Hi, can you please give more details? What computer was this? What broke? And if you fixed it, how did you fix it? Thank you.
I file that under hardware failure, not mundane power loss.
Author mentions they replaced the laptop, so I guess at that point it was well and truly cooked by all the issues before.
In the eighties I bought a C64 for the price of a beer from a guy who said it was a total loss - there had been smoke coming out of it! Turned out it was just a blown fuse. The same thing happened again a few years back with a pinball machine, which also worked fine once I replaced the fuse. So check for fuses :)
Last time I saw a computer do that it was due to bad memory sticks.
With my experience dating back to 286 machines, sometimes even kicking the box (literally) solves the problem
Just for fun I've bet on hardware failure.
In my experience, I had an issue and they showed up at my door next day and replaced the motherboard. This was about 7 years ago though.
What were the hardware failures on your machine?