We had a large problem with our Dell Optiplex SX270s blowing capacitors on the motherboard preventing the systems from powering on. I don't have an exact number but I'm sure we replaced 50+ due to the issue. I believe Dell indicated they had a large batch of faulty mother boards, which is believable as we still have quite a few SX270s running without issue. This was of course a couple of years ago as we're now deploying the Optiplex 745s and newer...
- Sean On 5/30/08, Micheal Espinola Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In light of some of the recent hardware-related oddities posted here, > I thought I'd share two of my own more annoying recent discoveries in > the past 6 months: > > 1. Dell Optiplex GX520's have a motherboard problem. The system will > shut itself off, leaving the user only with an amber flashing power > button light. The motherboard needs to be replaced to correct this > issue. My show has many of these PC's, and it has happened to 4 so > far. This starts are a very infrequent annoyance that becomes more > frequent over time - resulting in not being able to keep the system on > for more than 60 seconds between occurrences. It appears to me to be > a heat sensor problem, but I don't have confirmation on that. > > 2. I don't have a manufacturer commonality for this one, but it > appears to be specific to Serial-ATA. The problem/cause is still > unknown to me, but the result is partition corruption that makes the > drive unreadable without special utilities that can read raw data. > Twice this happened to the same HDD. The other other two instances > were different HDD's from different computers. In each case the > partition info could be reconstructed. It has happened to my own > system at home as well as user systems at work. The only commonality > was that there were all Windows XP systems. > > These are just some things to have recall for if you run into similar > oddities. That is all. > > -- > ME2 > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
