On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Much as I would like a great monitor, I think a new desktop comes first.
> My Samsung 226BW has profiled up nicely, I just
> have to be careful of the viewing angle, which is pretty easy sitting at a
> desk.
>
>
> Several technically awful, but highly informative, YouTube videos later, I
> knew exactly what was likely wrong and how to
> disassemble it without trial and error. Disassemble (easy), confirm and
> remove puffed up capacitors, (and the others of
> the same brand and type), remove, trip to the electronics store*, replace,
> reassemble, and all is as it should be again.
>
> You're lucky it was that easy. Dell knowling shipped computers for at
least a year that had weak and/or faulty caps on the motherboard. We're
talking about several different models - they got a whole shipment of bad
caps from the vendor and, instead of returning them, they just went ahead
and used them. When those PC's started dropping dead en masse a couple of
years later, Dell found itself with a major class-action lawsuit on its
hands which it lost. It had to replace a bunch of computers.
--
Paul Braun
Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Harlan Howard
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