Do you have a least favorite computer part?

How bout scanners? I have an HP Scanjet 4c that has it's own SCSI card and still needs to be cajoled into working correctly quite often. I try hard to forget the parallel port models i had before this that were even worse.....

my Cyrix 233 M2 chip, my intel P75 was faster!!!!

i forgot about my abit lx6, the bios chip that comes with it is trash, i have one bought for pennies with a bad bios chip, a friend buys one it will only see 64 megs of ram out of a 128 slab, so old owner swears to flash the bios, so i tried ended up in boot block mode , piddled with it for a while, got it to flash , slapped the chip in mine , yeah mine works, put it back in his bios chip crapps, flash it again under boot block mode, bad sectors, swap in one for a hot flash boot it once run it a while, doa chip, i like waisted 4 chips in this before i placed a wrong chip in it and its still working and so is mine,, im afraid to go neer his board again, mean whle my old vxpro plus, udma, usb motherboard witha k6-2 450,originally only suported a 233, and was free.. still is the most stable thing ive got, will actually run pc133 128 meg dimms too ,
thank you GOD, for something that actually funtions better then it should!

I hate modem. Mitsumi CD ROMs I like for price/value/performance

Zip Drives. I hate'em all!

[quote]Originally posted by Glenn:
<strong>My least favorite parts I've encountered...
1) Windows
2) AMD CPUs
3) Winmodems
4) Each and every CD-ROM and CD-RW drive I've encountered not lasting more than a year.
5) The Creative Labs Winsoundcards.
6) This crappy little Philips 2X ROM drive (with special adapter kit), which was my first CD drive.
7) The old I/O boards they made before they put all that crap on the mainboards and made it automated. Those things were brain surgery to configure (OK, first comm port is JP20-24, I need this pattern to set address/IRQ)...same with the printer and drives...and then trying to route all those cables... :eek: </strong><hr></blockquote>

Dude, it sounds like you hate computers. Well, atleast you're in the right place. Looking forward to helping you later on :D

Modems period. Actually my least favorite part is a friend of mine who calls me everytime he can't get a modem to work.

I do believe that computers have their own personality though. Most of them are just smart enough to work when I show up cause they know who can take them apart. If they aren't forthcoming right away I usually threaten to install Linux on them and they come around pretty darn quick.

I hate thoose CMS8003 Audio cards that you had to spend hours on the Web to find drivers for.

Any High Tech company (3DFx, Cardial Modems etc..)that went belly up and left you driver-less.

I hate: Winmodems.

I love: My DSL modem, I can't live without it!

i hate winmodems,

How do you tell a customer that their P75 with 8megs of ram and a 56k win modem will not work properly?

[quote]Originally posted by Aplustech:
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Dude, it sounds like you hate computers. Well, atleast you're in the right place. Looking forward to helping you later on :D </strong><hr></blockquote>

I can handle computers just fine. I just answered the topic is all. I won't deal with any of the "current" things there on the list if I can't help it (that means no AMD for you!).

The PC Chips motherboard I bought. Yuch!

My worst parts are:
All Cyrix CPU's
All Generic Memory (Uhhh, I'll quit buying these some day...)
LS-120 Drives (I had 2 fail on me in about 14 months, I was left with several unreadable 120MB disks)
Sound card\Cdrom drives!!!!!!

Those old super small mini-atx cases from manufacturers like compaq, sony, pb, hp, etc...

My first computer, a sony, omg...
Here are the steps it took to replace my broken floppy.

1 - Take off delicate decorative casing with little breakable clips(10 mins)
2 - Get pissed as you break all the clips (5 mins)
3 - Take off metal cover(5 mins)
4 - Freak out when you see how much they tried to fit into that little box. (5 mins)
5 - Take off cdrom blocking upper portion(floopy on top) (5 min)
6 - Freak out again when you see that the floopy has its own metal casing(5 min)
7 - Take off top decorative casing piece (5 min)
8 - Scream in pain as you get cut by the stray metal piece, wash off blood and bandage wound (10 min)
9 - Find out that you don't have enough room to pull it backward (5 min)
10 - Take out front decorative piece without breaking it (10 min)
11 - Replace floppy drive (5 min)
12 - Try to put cable back on (20 min), yes... its that hard
13 - Take out power supply because your hand doesn't fit to put in floopy or power cable (10 min)
14 - Finally put in cable (5 min)
15 - Put power supply and replug everything(10 min)
16 - Put front cover back on (15 min)
17 - Put back everything on (15 min)
18 - Cry as you see how you turned your beautiful case into a half broken metal box. (15 min)

Damn I love my Antec 1030b case.


Thank god Apple set an example by making a easy to assess case. They're all pretty easy now.

[quote]Originally posted by Aplustech:
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Dude, it sounds like you hate computers. Well, atleast you're in the right place. Looking forward to helping you later on :D </strong><hr></blockquote>

ROTFLMAO

good one, BTW I like your sig

[quote]Originally posted by Evilmage:
<strong>Those old super small mini-atx cases from manufacturers like compaq, sony, pb, hp, etc...

My first computer, a sony, omg...
Here are the steps it took to replace my broken floppy.

1 - Take off delicate decorative casing with little breakable clips(10 mins)
2 - Get pissed as you break all the clips (5 mins)
3 - Take off metal cover(5 mins)
4 - Freak out when you see how much they tried to fit into that little box. (5 mins)
5 - Take off cdrom blocking upper portion(floopy on top) (5 min)
6 - Freak out again when you see that the floopy has its own metal casing(5 min)
7 - Take off top decorative casing piece (5 min)
8 - Scream in pain as you get cut by the stray metal piece, wash off blood and bandage wound (10 min)
9 - Find out that you don't have enough room to pull it backward (5 min)
10 - Take out front decorative piece without breaking it (10 min)
11 - Replace floppy drive (5 min)
12 - Try to put cable back on (20 min), yes... its that hard
13 - Take out power supply because your hand doesn't fit to put in floopy or power cable (10 min)
14 - Finally put in cable (5 min)
15 - Put power supply and replug everything(10 min)
16 - Put front cover back on (15 min)
17 - Put back everything on (15 min)
18 - Cry as you see how you turned your beautiful case into a half broken metal box. (15 min)

Damn I love my Antec 1030b case.


Thank god Apple set an example by making a easy to assess case. They're all pretty easy now.</strong><hr></blockquote>


I'm with you man. I've done this routine exactly at least more than a few times. How about the skimpy power supplies they put in those that cause hangs ups and BSOD's when you upgrade one too many components

[quote]Originally posted by SlyVenom:
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ROTFLMAO

good one, BTW I like your sig</strong><hr></blockquote>

Thanks Sly