At my previous job I just left, we had over 50 GX270's replaced out of the 400 in the building due to bulging capacitors.
Klint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > #1 is a known problem. Do a Google search for leaky or bulging capacitors > on Dell Optiplex machines... > > We've had that happen on 3 of ours. Dell replaced two of them (they were > still under warranty, but they've been known to replace them even on > out-of-warranty systems). > > The third was one purchased and "modified" by NEC. Our NEC vendor > scrounged up a similar system which may or may not fail at any time (it's > our voice mail system). Less than 2 months, and we're rid of NEC!!! > > Intersting story of industrial espionage... An electronics company broke > into the databases of a rival to steal their capacitor electrolyte > formula. They stole one their competitor was not using as they knew it > would result in failing capacitors. The bad guys thought they had the > good formula and sold millions of them to MB manufacturers, including MBs > used by Dell. > -------------------------------------- > Richard McClary, Systems Administrator > ASPCA Knowledge Management > 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 > 217-337-9761 > http://www.aspca.org > > > "Micheal Espinola Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/30/2008 > 12:34:40 PM: > > >> 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> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
