Riva, I'm just now getting to this thread...was out on vacation. I don't think you mentioned the Dell model...was it by any chance an Optiplex GX270? Our school district bought a boatload of those from Dell, and they're generally good machines, but the motherboard was revised and used a different USB chip that has a tendency to fry itself. Symptoms include frozen video, limited or no USB port response, and eventually total failure to boot. We have recently finished negotiations with Dell to replace ALL the motherboards on these machines (some 900 machines) free of charge with a different version that uses the old chip. Most of the fried machines I've looked at so far have visible burn or scorch marks on the USB chip in the middle of the motherboard, so it's easy to tell. At first we thought it was due to some people's PDAs sucking too much juice through the ports but then we had several fail that weren't supporting *any* USB devices (they were even using PS2 mice).
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