My 1.9 cents worth

Hello, everyone. Just wanted to add my almost two cents worth to the mix...

I'm a contract technician with Qualxserv, doing mostly Dell and IBM warranty break/fix work. I've replaced almost 70 GX270 motherboards at a single location in the past three and a half months, and they have another 230 at the site. There are other scattered occurences in my territory, but I haven't had any other large-scale problems such as this one.

Here are the common factors I've seen in the failed units:

- All of them are small form factor...

For what it's worth...

KFS, I'm a contract technician with Qualxserv that does warranty repair on mostly Dell and IBM machines. I know that at least two models of IBM - one of the ThinkCentres and the NetVista A40, if memory serves - had some problems back in 2004 with caps dying.

About the GX270s - since mid-December 2004, I've replaced 39 of them at a single site, and there are 11 more known bad that are awaiting service calls to be generated. What's really scary is that the site has about 300+ machines...and they're all GX270s purchased at exactly the same time...