Re: New Members - please post your introductions here




This has really only been my first bad one. The others were easy fixes. Viruses/spyware bad PSU, this was my first bad one. (knocks on wood)...

Re: Cap on a DellGX270 right next to Ram slots

Well, the other system was a bad HD, that was fixed and out the door already.


I called Dell on the GX270 and they are sending out a tech and a new board. Hope this fixes it! (Crosses Fingers)

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Im 26 and am fresh to the IT world.

My first PC was a 486DX2 66, Win3.11/Dos6.22!! WOOT WOOT. (I think that was the software, long time ago for me) At this point is where the fun began! I then got my dads old computer that was from a local computer shop a P100 i think. And that is when it all really started! I started tinkering with it and crashed it a few times. but is was Windows 95a.

I then built a K6-400 myself, didnt last long and got a 450 and put the 400 into another machine. After messing...

Re: Cap on a DellGX270 right next to Ram slots

Damn, it seems like they are bad boards. Now i will have to get the OK from MGMT to do a mobo swap.

I got a Dell GX260 in on Friday with similar symptoms, LOL..

They used crap suppliers for those systems. I think that the 270 im working on is from Foxconn, not sure about the 260. I haven't opened it yet.

Re: Dell OptiPlex™ SX270 / GX270 / GX280 OUT OF WARRANTY SUPPORT PROGRAM

what do you mean that you have a thermal element on the screen?

Re: Cap on a DellGX270 right next to Ram slots

is your opinion that the cap might be the cause?

Here a camera phone pic.
It looks like gum or corosion on top of the cap.
The system symptoms are:
Booting into windows and then the whole system will freeze in normal mode, it never fails to not do it. Sometimes the system wont even load. Safe mode works perfectly fine!...