Dell's dodgy capacitors

chunter

I've just been talking to a Dell engineer, (I had a machine arrive with a dodgy motherboard) and he was telling me Dell had a huge problem with a shipment of dodgy capacitors on motherboards.
Apparently he's replacing 3 motherboards a week...

anybody any further info?

isgman

We have over a 2000 dells on site... so far in the last 10 months,. only 2 U/S with capacitor problems... But... about 100 U/S PSU's....

Joe_Bloggs

See The Inquirer story here.
And also the links at the bottom of the article.
J_B.

GaryS

chunter wrote:

I've just been talking to a Dell engineer, (I had a machine arrive with a dodgy motherboard) and he was telling me Dell had a huge problem with a shipment of dodgy capacitors on motherboards.
Apparently he's replacing 3 motherboards a week...

anybody any further info?

Maybe thats why Dell machines always seem to be on offer !

We have had several capacitor problems at work, and a few fan/psu issues.
When the fan sounds as though it is about to take off, thats the apparent warning sign.