You can replace the caps yourself. Here are two links that sell sets of
caps for the GX 270
http://thecapking.com/gx270.html
http://www.badcaps.net/store/product_info.php?cPath=1_4&products_id=2
Bad Caps will also do the job for you for a price, He's located in Mizzou.
Russ W.
On 12/14/2011 11:00 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
I picked up a Dell optiplex GX270 cheap. It cost less than used
memory for the old box I am running. Loaded XP on it and could not
get the built-in network to work. I tried adding a Gigafast network
card, and it would not recognize that. I seemed to remember having
problems with driver with it in the past, so I swapped it out and put
in a kingston card. It could not find drivers for that on the install
CD either (?) ...
So, a little online research showed that the 270 has problems with
caps popping. So I shut it down, and sho-nuff, one capacitor by the
DIMM slots is popped. THis is the 4th one of these I have bought, but
the first one with a bad cap. I had heard the little laptop in a box
Dells have bigtime capacitor problems, but I had missed that on the
"pro" grade mid-towers.
I suppose i could buy capacitors from digikey or someplace like that.
How hard is it to replace them? Any special tricks? Heat sinks needed?
For the time being, I have one other machine that I bought to strip
memory out of. It seems to have ok caps., but it is a 260, so does
not have SATA. I bought the 270 to have SATA.
Any ideas about the caps appreciated.
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