Quoting Nicholas Blatter <[email protected]>: > Two years ago (or so) Dell had a major problem with their GX270 > machines. This was mostly due to bad capacitors, but around the same > time they also started having pretty big problems with the power > supplies as well. As it turns out, some of the glue used in the > construction of the power supplies actually becomes conductive as the > power supply was used. From what I was told this was a combination of > heat and the age of the glue.
http://www.simplepctalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/gx270_capacitors.jpg The glue power supply issue was for the GX150 machines, however the GX270 machines power supplies also liked to go out as well. They were still on warrenty, so I happily made Dell fix those at their expense. Oh, and one of the pesky chips on the GX270 motherboard liked to make a sound and let the smoke out. BOOM! I had a friend that was a salesperson for Dell. I asked him about the GX270's and he said Dell took a pretty substantial loss on them due to their low quality. > In Physics we probably replaced several dozen power supplies because > of this problem. Oh, it was more than several dozen. I was swapping power supplies to get glue replaced by our electronics guy and team for months. Ah, memories. - Jake -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
