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Dell's dodgy capacitors

chunter
chunter Posts: 2,023 Forumite
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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?

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  • isgman
    isgman Posts: 490 Forumite
    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....
    :beer: Keep your Chin up.. it can only get better :beer:
    :confused: I'm one of those people who was born to have money, :confused:
    :confused: but I just don't have any!:confused:
  • Joe_Bloggs
    Joe_Bloggs Posts: 4,535 Forumite
    See The Inquirer story here.
    And also the links at the bottom of the article.
    J_B.
  • GaryS
    GaryS Posts: 807 Forumite
    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.
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