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I got a figure of 9% failures overall for the gx 270 line, from a person in the repair business. I wonder if its worse than that, now? For more technical details on this whole horror story, go to badcaps.com where you can find pictures of what a bad capacitor looks like. You can pretty much figure out on your own if you stare at the motherboard with a strong light and possibily a magnifying glass. Ugh! --STeve Andre' Political Science On Thursday 14 September 2006 15:15, Peter J Murray wrote: > 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=Googl >e+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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > BEGIN:VCARD > > VERSION:2.1 > > X-GWTYPE:USER > > FN:Al Bray > > TEL;WORK:517-355-0357 Ext. 161 > > ORG:;University Services > > TEL;PREF;FAX:517-353-2024 > > EMAIL;WORK;PREF:[log in to unmask] > > N:Bray;Al > > TITLE:Systems Analyst > > END:VCARD