On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Robert LeBlanc <rob...@leblancnet.us> wrote: > Do you know if the power supplies are in certain models of Dells so we can > keep an eye out?
As Jake pointed out, the GX150s had problems but I'm pretty sure that the GX260s and GX270s also had the problem with glue. At least, I know we've sent a few supplies from these machines to our electrical technician guy and he said he fixed them by replacing the glue. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Jacob Albretsen <ja...@xmission.com> wrote: > Oh, and one of the pesky chips on the GX270 motherboard liked to make > a sound and let the smoke out. BOOM! Yeah, the 270s were an exciting model. Bad caps, conductive glue, and defective southbridges. There were fifty-seven different ways the magic smoke could escape from those machines. > Oh, it was more than several dozen. I was swapping power supplies to > get glue replaced by our electronics guy and team for months. Oh, well, it may have been more than a few dozen...I'm just remembering what I did myself. It was the low level support peons that did most of it ;) Nick -------------------- 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
