A generic 40x CD-ROM. It detects a CD roughly 20% of the time. Thankfully, I don't bother with that computer since I got my ThinkPad which has been amazing (knock on wood).
I put together a computer for my father-in-law. He is into video-editing and had an ancient miro Video DC1 ISA card in his old computer that he wanted to keep using. This old monster operates with a fixed IRQ, which I was unaware of (had no manual for it), and it just would not work under Windows 98SE. Eventually we asked a hardware guy to have a look at it, and he figured out what the problem was. (I was hitting myself in the head for not spotting it myself.)
I don't know if any of you guys have ever seen this card before... It is HUGE, probably as big as a Voodoo 5500 or even bigger. And it generated so much heat it was incredible. But it works now at least.
<< ATI TV Wonder VE
bastard still doesnt work and been in 3 different pc's, only worked in 1. >>
That's funny...that was the first piece of hardware that came to my mind when I read the thread title. I was about ready to throw mine away...finally got it to work in one of my kids' machines. ATI drivers/software sure are lousy.
<FONT face=Verdana size=1><U>What piece of hardware has caused you the MOST headaches in the past year or two?</U></FONT>
<FONT face=Verdana size=1>hmm what a strange question when the answer is cystal clear?</FONT> :QVIA!:|
On my box: my STB TV/FM PCI Tuner and my old Philips CD-3610 2/2/6 CD-RW wasn't all that great.
But the biggest headache I've had no doubt came from my dad's new ASUS CUSL2 motherboard. It took me 4 months to diagnose the problem that it would not print, only to find out that the parallel port had burned out. I had to go out and buy a $50 PCI-to-parallel port card.
Printers, especially HP inkjets (try sharing them over the network for extra fun)... I second the motion about printers being a huge pain in the...
VIA Apollo MVP3 boards - yeah, I am still using some of them. Does not really support ACPI, and if you activate APM in Win 2K, it crashes the system upon shut down. Manual shutting off, how mid 90s!!! AGP on MVP3 sux big boulders.
Diamond Viper II video card and Counter-Strike under Windows 2000. Another great example of GOOD hardware but HORRIBLE driver support. Anyone tried that card in Windows XP BTW?
By far the worst piece of hardware i had was a Biostar M7MKA motherboard. It was a AMD 750 chipset with an Athlon 650. That thing was the most unstable piece of crap I have ever seen. I couldnt play any game for 30 seconds without it locking up as well as even booting into Windows wouldnt even complete sometimes.
HP Printers/Scanners in general corporate environment.
The Product is great. Support is terrible. Have to purchase drivers from HP to get units compatible w/2000.
Also, Install/Uninstalling HP software/drivers doesn't remove all the HP registry entries. Have to use a Reg Cleaner to ensure proper reinstalls or upgrades.
I have to third (or fourth, i've lost count) the K7T Pro2a, started out bad when I got it a year ago, finally died 3 weeks ago. After that, the issues I've had with the K7S5A's have seemed like minor annoyances.
My Asus K7V motherboard. Had it for 10 months. Damn KX133 chipset. The thing was finally stable with the last bios release and the via 4.29 4 in 1s. By then it was time to upgrade
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