RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-03 Thread Terry Dickson
2 of them. -Original Message- From: Anthony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird issue with older Dell PCs Anybody out there had success replacing a popped capacitor to fix a MB? Tried it once, didn&#

Re: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
One of our warehouse techs is good with a soldering iron and he's had some success with PC motherboards and Cisco switches. Unfortunately, a bad capacitor is sometimes one symptom of a bigger problem, and sometimes a bad capacitor can have a "ripple effect" to the other components on the board. I

Re: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-03 Thread Anthony
Anybody out there had success replacing a popped capacitor to fix a MB? Tried it once, didn't work... Anthony - Original Message - From: Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 7:39 AM Subject: RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs I second that diag

RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-03 Thread Richards, Brian D
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Weird issue with older Dell PCs Hi Folks: We see an odd issue here with some of our Dell Optiplex machines, and one Dell Dimension. Most of these units are two years old or older. What

RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread David Lum
+1 From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs Pretty sure that specific capacitor issue was contained to just the 270's. From: Ames Matthew B [m

RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread Ames Matthew B
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs Pretty sure that specific capacitor issue was contained to just the 270's. From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin I

RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread N Parr
Pretty sure that specific capacitor issue was contained to just the 270's. From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs Could it b

RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread John Hornbuckle
02, 2008 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs I second that diagnosis. Exact symptoms on the GX280 I had... From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread RichardMcClary
power up at all. > > Cheers, > Matt > > From: Tom Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 September 2008 14:14 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Weird issue with older Dell PCs > Hi Folks: > > We see an odd issue here with some of our Dell Optiplex mach

RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM
I second that diagnosis. Exact symptoms on the GX280 I had... From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs Could it be the exploding capacity

Re: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread David Coffey
uesday, September 02, 2008 9:36 AM Subject: Re: Weird issue with older Dell PCs I have had several of the GX260's lose the power supply after displaying those symptoms. Jon On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Ames Matthew B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could it be the exploding capacit

Re: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread Jon Harris
14 > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Weird issue with older Dell PCs > > Hi Folks: > > We see an odd issue here with some of our Dell Optiplex machines, and one > Dell Dimension. Most of these units are two years old or older. What > happens is that the user tur

RE: Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread Ames Matthew B
: Tom Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 September 2008 14:14 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Weird issue with older Dell PCs Hi Folks: We see an odd issue here with some of our Dell Optiplex machines, and one Dell Dimension. Most of these units are two years old or older. What happens

Weird issue with older Dell PCs

2008-09-02 Thread Tom Miller
Hi Folks: We see an odd issue here with some of our Dell Optiplex machines, and one Dell Dimension. Most of these units are two years old or older. What happens is that the user turns on the machine, the fan goes into overdrive, (sounds like a 1U server starting), and then nothing. The use