On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Nicholas Blatter <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Robert LeBlanc <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I don't recall a problem with Dell and adhesives. Maybe you can jog my > > memory? > > 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. > > In Physics we probably replaced several dozen power supplies because > of this problem. We still encounter it occasionally in some of these > older machines, but we are able to fix it by opening the power supply, > removing the adhesive, and re-gluing some of the components. > > It might not have hit Dell as hard as the motherboard problem did, but > it certain wasn't cheap either. > > All I could remember was the GX270 motherboard capacitor problem, but I didn't make a correlation with adhesive so I was a bit confused. We only had a few power supplies that have gone bad in our college so I wasn't aware of how wide spread the problem was. Do you know if the power supplies are in certain models of Dells so we can keep an eye out? Thanks, Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham Young University
-------------------- 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
