We have seen the bad capacitor issues over the years. But as an update on the original issue... 2 more just failed. That's 7 in one lab, 3 in another.
According to their forum, there are others that are seeing similar failures. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:40:04 -0800 Subject: RE: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? > Yep. It seems all my Dell Laptop batteries die at 13 months. They warranty > them for 12 months. > > > > -Sam > > > > From: Mark Boeck [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:25 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Anybody else having large failure rates of Dell Power Supplys, > SFF Model Optplex 390 and/or 790? > > > > > > The cheapest way to have a machine die on-time is to put in capacitors that > will die in 2, 3, or 4 years, depending on how long you want the product to > last. > > > > This is not a quality issue, but a death at a predetermined time issue. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We're having a very large failure rate of computer power supplies in 2 of > our brand new labs. These are 2 labs of 32 computers each... one lab is Dell > Optiplex 390 SFFs, the other is Dell Optiplex 790 SFFs. I think they use the > exact same PS. > > Issues are either A) No power and no lights, B) Blinking yellow power lights > and won't turn on, or C) *Poof* smoke. > > We have 8 failures in the past month out of 64 computers. I'm just curious > if anybody else on the list is seeing similar failures for recent SFF > dells... > > Sales rep contacted, I'm awaiting response. > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
