Products you have come to HATE.

[Obelysk]

Anything that says 'MSI' on it is pure garbage.
Compaq is the worst POS in the industry next to Packard Bell...maybe. Too close to call.

Fujitsu and Western Digital hard drives are junk. Seagate ain't so great lately either.

ATI video cards...what is the story with their drivers? Can't they make one !%^$*&@ driver that DOESN'T screw up Windows?

[JungleMan1]

- Any OEM I can think of with the exception of Alienware (kudos to them for using standardized parts). I hate Gayway, Compaq, Hewlett Crappard, and eMachines the most of all.
- PC Chips motherboards.
- Compaq notebooks.
- Kensington mice.
- Generic CD drives such as Digital Research.
- Hitachi hard drives.
- AOL software.
- Realtek NICs.
- CompUSA CDR media.
- Pentium 4 processors.
- Plustek scanners.
- Sony technical support.
- Linksys USB NICs (CRAP!!!!!!)
- Winmodems.
- Iomega BUZ. (BIGGEST waste of 300 bucks ever.)
- Windows ME.
- Dazzle DVC USB (they charge you for w2k drivers for a slow-as-sh1t device)
- Mat****a DVD drives. (yes that is the real company name, isn't it right in the name why I hate these things? )

And worst of all...EPSON PRINTERS!!!!!

[jbar1]

Yep PCChips a real bummer, Creative Cdrom likewise. Diamond stealth strictly for low end users. Realtek Nics... I trash them. Recently worked on a Network that had about $600.00 invested in a switch and all 10 PCs had $10.00 Realtek NICs. Installed 3COMs system now is stable and hums. I must live a charmed life. Have lots of customers with Zip, LS120 and Syquest. Have rarely seen any problems. Realize that Zip had areal problem some years ago, fact is the replaced our two SCSI internals and 20 Zip disk all for free. Been using a Syquest EZ 135 on our sever for 4 years and it has yet to fail. My 2 kids have LS120s that they have been using for about 2 years with no Probs. Have had problems with the Jazz. Tekram SCSI cards have been a major pain. As far as HP and Conpaqs Their High end stuff is good low and medium end stuff sucks.

[Cygnus]

Seagate HDDs (only the IDE models, the SCSI's work good for me)
anything Packard Bell or Compaq
winmodems
and even though you dont see many anymore, those stinkin bigfoot drives are dieing in droves!

[tracker]

Fujitsu IDE drives (or, fujitsu drives re-labeled as IBM drives)
Winmodems (COM8 ?!?!?!)
Anything mat****a, no doubt
Quantum bigfoot drives (oddly enough, the SCSI drives seem decent?)
LS-120 drives


Just curious - why don't you all like Creative cd-roms?? We use the oem 52X drives and they're great <shrug>


Craig

[stimpson_J_cat]

Media Vision TV Tuner cards
Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound cards
Hewlett-Packard --> Pavilion's specifically
compaq desktops
and Iomega Zip Internal with Win ME

[jaskeyjk]

things to kill...

anything Compaq or Compaq related

Anything Packard Bell or PB related

Imation floppy disks

Fu-jip-you HDDs

Quantum HDDs

Windows Me

Aztech sound cards

Anything Diamond

Winmodems (WTF is Com5?????)


Stuff that rules...

Asus mobos

Asus DVD ROMs

Supermicro server mobos

SBLive! cards

Leadtek and Elsa AGP GeForce graphics

IBM Deskstar 75GXP HDDs

IBM and Seagate SCSI HDDs

Mitsubishi Diamond plus monitors

NEC CD-Drives

HP 9000 series CD burners

Philips CD burners

I only use quality parts in my systems!!!

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[QPAVL]

PC Chips mb's {Universal parts, runs nothing equally well }, Winmodems, cirrus "logic" video cards, Sis video cards, , Norton anything recent. .And of course the Windows virus [ with appologies to viruses everywhere].

[KINGofBLEH]

Distributed File System
Novell Netware
Maxtor hard drives
Lotus Notes
900Mhz phones
AOL
Magitron hubs
Book PCs
...and...
Expensive dates with nothing to show for it

[KINGofBLEH]

[quote]Originally posted by Obelysk:
<strong>Anything that says 'MSI' on it is pure garbage.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Does that include applications whose setup files are compiled in the new Windows Installer (i.e. setup.msi instead of setup.exe)?

[tombum]

SiS video cards
Samsung HDDs
Canon printers
Any winmodem with a Motorola chipset
Lifeview TV tuner cards
Any of those small cheap speakers that cost like $5 and sound very crappy. I have never understood why people purchase a system with a decent sound card (SoundBlaster Live etc) and then use these nasty speakers.

[http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi]

I have recently come to hate Roxio/Adaptec Easy CD Crater. It is the most unstable, unusable, and poorly written piece of crap I've ever used! The uninstaller has failed about 50% of the time, and it's made more coasters than I have glasses.

Other crappy products:

Anything Compaq (I had to COMPLETELY disassemble a Compaq laptop to get to the hard drive)
Anything Packard Hell (I STILL haven't figured out how to get to the hard drive without mining equipment and explosives)
Earthmate GPS (it only works with their software)
RealPlayer (if they made it any more annoying, it would be called Quicktime 4.0)
Netscape (Only slightly more stable than HotJava)
KDS monitors (I've had 5 go bad so far...)
HP cameras (broke 3 different ways)

[Garak]

ERM, where do i start??


Microsoft
Norton
Pc-Chips
dell
hewlet crapard
crapard hell
compaq
winmodems
tiny hardd drives
trident
erm, cant think of anything else

oh yeah, my creative works great, never had problem with them yet..

[Solkanar]

You guys can tell when people have experience by what they write in their hate list. Here's mine.

pcchips anything
anything with onboard video
packard bell
compaq
acer cd drives
bigfoot drives
win me
win 98 pc's that don't shut down and the patch doesn't work on
the $400 instant rebate
mfg rebates that never arrive
diamond video cards (although the Viper 770 Ultra was good for it's time)
amd k-6 II's (Not problematic, just a lot slower than you think)
Novell client 32 (especially the defective releases that cost us dozens of man hours)
and finally, I hate non english speaking non deoderant wearing show salesman trying to sell you system pull parts with no warranty as brand new.

Ooh, ooh, one more, I hate non english speaking non deoderant wearing show salesman who sell you software and then your friend goes to buy it and when you get home, you realize you both have the same cd-key.

[]-[otRod]

Any motherboard with built in SIS components...

SIS (SATAN IN SYSTEM!)