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The Lan Man
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Greenville, SC
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No, But I have got calls and people have showed up at my door with stuff like this. People know that im heavily involved in computer stuff, so im sometimes the 1st person they come to, to get rid of stuff. |
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Smith6612
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united state
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| I'm quite involved in computer services as well. A lot of the people I've worked with literally told me that they would really only trust me fixing their computers and cleaning them out. Like most recently I had to fix a computer (a Dell OptiPlex GX270) with blown capacitors on the motherboard, and this system was for a business who used it as a cash register. So I have a lot of trust on my hands, and sometimes quite a bit of important data on my hands as well I have to take care of. |
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WALL_E
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USA
1 edit | I just had to laugh at this, because I happen to work in an IT department, and next to my desk is a stack of about 12 OptiPlex GX270s, all with blown capacitors near the memory slots.  Not to many problems with the GX280s that are used extensively here.
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Airwolf7
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join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
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1 edit | Bad capacitors are a known problem with many motherboards and other components. I have fixed many devices with blown capacitors that people were just going to throw away and after repairs they worked perfectly fine and could be put back into useful service. A lot of the computers that I use and gave to friends or needy people were from people that just wanted to throw them away or decided that they wanted to upgrade equipment instead of pay for repair.
I have ran across lots of Intel D845, D865, and D875 motherboards with theses problems and a sack full of the Dell OptiPlex SX270 computers. A local lady that owns a Insurance Company where I live upgraded all of her OptiPlex GX240 computers to OptiPlex SX270 computers and Dell had to replace the motherboard in every single one of them.
Dell had a special out of warranty program for these models for this problem but it is over now.
"Dell OptiPlex™ SX270 / GX270 / GX280 Out of Warranty Support Program.
Dell™ will provide out of warranty coverage in North, Central and South America for OptiPlex™SX270(UFF), GX270, GX280 systems with failed motherboards due to expanding or leaking capacitors for 5 years from date of purchase, or until 31-January-2008, whichever comes first."
Check out this website »www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=2 as this fellow has custom capacitors replacement kits for many models of motherboards and computers including the ones you have.
If you or someone in your IT department has patience and soldering skills then you might be able to get your computers back up on their feet again for under $30.00 each or you can send the motherboards out of them to him and he can repair them and ship them back to you probably for under $60.00 each.
You can check out his website for the details about all of this.
Edit: I have not ran across any problems with the Dell OptiPlex GX280 computers that any of my customers use so I'm guessing that only the first batch of these were affected before Dell found the problem and corrected it. |
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Nerdtalker
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join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
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I hate the OptiPlex GX270s, every last one of 'em. Capacitor Plague is never-ending, seriously. I've replaced a good 20 or so of 'em on assorted motherboards as well as other electrical components (power supplies, very specific/specialized DSP cards, e.t.c.), and whomsoever's idea it was to fiddle with the electrolyte chemistry should be stoned mercilessly with the thousands of popped capacitors they're responsible for.
Solid state FTW.
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Airwolf7
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Franklin, KY
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| We could stone them to death like in the old days, but instead of using stones we could pelt them with capacitors. I don't know if it would work to well though because I don't think the capacitors weigh enough. Might could cover them with dump truck loads of capacitors until they were buried under a mound of them. It might suffocate them sooner or later.
On the bright side, I did get a lot of nice equipment for free that with a couple of bucks and a few minutes of my time worked perfectly again. |
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Nerdtalker
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Tucson, AZ
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| Oh, I'm sure there are more than enough bad/popped capacitors out there to crush a man or two. Seriously. Some days, I honestly wonder what kind of lack of all engineering sense led them to build such terrible capacitors; something so simple and taken-for-granted crippling the most otherwise complicated ICs... ::sigh::
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