Tom:
Many thanks for sharing your experiences. I've had trouble with a Lenovo
as well. Which models of the new personal
Dell desktops did you not like?
Rich
On 12/2/2018 14:00, Tom Van Gorkom wrote:
I have used several refurb business Dell Optiplexes for Rivendell and
other Linux systems which have lasted for years. I did not like the
new personal Dell desktops on the lower end and I had a big fight
loading CentOS 7 on a new Lenovo, mainly because of how the newer UEFI
and BIOS works. The last time I messed with it the system worked much
easier, but of course I knew to use legacy settings in the BIOS. I'm
no expert... FWIW.
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On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 2:40 PM Rich Stivers <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Fred:
Thanks for this information. I bought a couple of Windows PC's in
this time frame and was fortunate to have missed this problem.
Rich
On 12/2/2018 06:40, Fred Gleason wrote:
On Dec 2, 2018, at 04:55, Rich Stivers <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Has anyone had any positive or negative experiences with
installing Centos 7 on an Optiplex 3060 Tower? Seems like I
remember someone mentioning Dell motherboard capacitors failing.
That was much more an industry-wide problem, (allegedly due to
problems with certain passive component suppliers in eastern
Asia), which reached its peak in the mid/late-2000s and has been
in steady decline ever since. I have no specific experience with
the Dell Optiplex line, but I would not expect it to have any
particular problems with failed capacitors relative to any other
reputable brand.
You can read more about the ‘capacitor plague’ of the early 21st
century at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
Cheers!
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