Oh Yes

[kyra_ojosverdes]

I dedicate the fact that Friday was a good day to Dr. Jim Jacobs, who taught me what a capacitor looks like and what it does. I was replacing a faulty tape drive1 and trying not to let any of the screws fall into the server. Of course one did. Of course it landed right by a set of fairly chubby (for a motherboard) capacitors. That would have been

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[kightp]

Heh. No shit.

Evidently Dell got shipped a gazillion wonky capacitors that all went into this particular model ... or so I was told by campus tech support when they were replacing my motherboard and power supply yesterday after my GX270 had begun to lose its ability to boot up without going straight into power-saving mode.

(The inside of the GX270 reminds me of the engine compartment on my New Beetle: Everything crammed in so tight you can barely get a tool in there to fix anything.)

[kyra_ojosverdes]

I'm a fan of nice big roomy cases. My brain refuses to believe that hardware repairs on laptops are even possible. (Seen it done, can't process it.)

[johnpalmer]

Hmm. I wonder if that's what JU26Mirage is.

"Sorry, that has a blown processor."

"We've replaced the processor, but the motherboard is bad."

"We have a Dell Platinum Server technician coming in."

"Dell couldn't fix it on Friday. We are scheduling another visit."

My question to my manager: "Did someone pretend they were doing us a *favor* by giving us this server?"

[kyra_ojosverdes]

According to the various stuff I've seen on the bad motherboard capacitor issue, you can tell by looking at the capacitors. They have bulgy tops and/or leaking fluid.

[johnpalmer]

Nod. It'd be nice if I could get my hands on the server myself, but the labs folks are the ones who have to do it.

[darthgeek]

It wasn't just Dell. Some company in China or Taiwain or Korea stole the design for capactiors from a company in the other country, but, they screwed up the design and shipped a shipload or two full of bad capacitors.

[darthgeek]

Uh, yeah, what the_crumdgn said.