This is a known problem with the GX-270.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13709831
http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2005/8/30/0141/79530
or just a google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gx-270+motherboard+problems&btnG=Google+Search
As an aside, I recently had a in warranty graphics card fail, due to
bulging capacitors.
Peter Murray
James Madison College
Al Bray wrote:
> 3 years (and two weeks) ago we made a bulk buy of 90+ Dell OptiPlex
> GX-270 systems to replace older desktop machines for our users.
>
> Overall we have been satisfied with these systems. But during the last
> 7 months or so, we have had to replace the motherboards in 17 of these
> systems.
>
> The typical symptom that results in us having to request a replacement
> MB has been that the video signal from the built in video card would
> spontaneously go dead in the middle of using the machine. No
> predictable pattern to when. Power cycling the machine brings the video
> back 99% of the time. But once it starts to happen on a given machine,
> it continues and increase in frequency.
>
> The first couple of times we suspected driver incompatibility, power
> supplies, etc. But in the end, replacing the motherboard (transferring
> over the processor and memory from the existing MB) has been the
> permanent fix.
>
> I am wondering if anyone else purchased some of these GX-270 systems
> and has experienced the same or similar issue. Feel free to respond to
> me off list as I am not trying to bash the manufacturer, just figure out
> if it might be a manufacturer defect. A 20% plus MB replacement rate
> seems out of the norm in my thinking.
>
> These machines are out of warranty as of two weeks ago, and we now have
> two more systems that are yet again experiencing this problem.
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> - Al
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