Crapist hardware you ever owned.

[The PIT]

For me it was an Abit Kt133a raid. It shouldn't have ever made it out of the factory.

[spoogenet]

Windows 98.

Oh, wait, you said hardware....

How about my Cyrix P200+. Damn thing was so slow it couldn't play MP3 files without skipping.

b

[DentyCracker]

That's an easy one

Quantum 4GB HD, failed upon formatting, and its replacement proved to be an unreliable POS you'd love for your wost enemy to own.

[Wombat]

I've had a couple of really crappy Rockwell modems, but I'm sure I'll think of something else.

[KRSESQ]

Acer AP5C/P motherboard with a Cyrix 166+ processor. The Cyrix processor was nice, but the mobo was a touch squirrelly out of the box and when the cpu fan socket on the mobo died the cpu cooked (predictably). Haven't touched an Acer product since.

Kevin

[Helevitia]

Intel ISVR3 Video Capture Card. It was so picky about IRQ's and the drivers were horrible.

I have to mention though, that ICQ is the absolute worst software program I've ever used.

Dave

[Tempest]

-Dexxa Optical Mouse (made only double-clicks two months after purchase, optical sensor went crazy ~5 times/hour)
-ATI Radeon DDR 64 ViVo (new card with fresh ATI drivers on a VIA chipset... Stable for ~3 minutes with fail-safe BIOS settings and AGP 1x unless you tried to run an app or something)
-IBM Aptiva (for the "great expandability" and the nonstandard cache modules which I tried to order from IBM but were nowhere to be found)
-A couple of very VERY stubborn no-name 14.4 modems
...other things that I have tried and managed to forget

[Alec]

A crappy soundcard based on a Opti-931 chip that was a pain to detect in DOS games.

The card disconfigured itself of the system randomly with the precious help of Windows 95.

[Guru]

I have to mention though, that ICQ is the absolute worst software program I've ever used.

Same here! Worst hardware ABIT BE6-II!

[Taz]

Iomega Ditto Max tape backup unit, or more specifically the ISA controller that came with it, wouldn't work at all when my TV card was in the machine and dog slow the rest of the time

[Dilitante1]

tough one but.........

I'd say the VXPRO PCChips board for my Cyrix 200+....ties for worst with my 1980 Ford Thunderbird

-Dil

[cjolley]

No contest.
Motorola Voice Win Modem by a mile.
chuck

[omegaRED]

Originally posted by Guru
Worst hardware ABIT BE6-II!

I cant complain about the MoBo itself, but the HPT366 is a pain in the ass ...

[SteveC]

Crappiest Mainboard: PCChips VX-PRO (the IDE controllers were completely Non Standard!)
Crappiest CPU: Cyrix PR200+ (This thing got hotter than my 1Gig tbird@1.4Gig, and ran slower than a P90)
Crappiest Vid Card: Gxx0 Nah - the SiS 6326 - I was suckered in by their 'Voodoo2 beater' crap
Crappiest Hard Drive: Anything Quantum or Maxtor (Oh, they're the same company now, how appropriate!)
Crappiest CD: Anything made by Torisan
Crappiest (Internal) peripheral: The <B>IBM MWAVE</B> !!! AAHH!!
Crappiest (External) Peripheral: Mannesmann Tally T9108 Laser Printer
Crappiest Vehicle: Joint between my '84 (Brown) Nova and my '86 (White death trap) Escort
Crappiest TV: Sony 28" Widescreen (Geometry? What's that do again? )
Crappiest Software: AOL (Any version)

[Dilitante1]

Sums it up nicely, but the worst printer is a Lexmark 1000......=)


-Dil