since were going on about PC buidling horror stories, i got a PCTV card for a present once, "cool" i thaught, installed it, ran fine for a few days, but when i installed it i didnt have any screws so I just left it to balance there, one day it snapped out of the PCI port and crashed down breaking my network card, and sound card in its wake.
For six months i had to live with no sound, no xbox live, and no PCTV