Faulty capacitor info

To isolate the caps which may be at fault have a look here:

[URL="http://news.cnet.com/PCs-plagued-by-bad-capacitors/2100-1041_3-5942647.html"]http://news.cnet.com/PCs-plagued-by-bad-capacitors/2100-1041_3-5942647.html[/URL]

The interesting bit says:



I can't vouch for the accuracy of this info but CNET is pretty reliable in my view. Maybe this will help someone identify the rogue caps in their system.Faulty capacitor info

To isolate the caps which may be at fault have a look...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Found this site while looking for reasons my Dell has the turbo fan problem. What's more, a post here pointed me in the right direction to fix it!

I found some info on bad caps which is bound to be on here somewhere but I couldn't find it for the Dell Optiplex GX280 so I will post it there and hope it helps someone.

Great site. Cheers from Spain![/FONT]Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

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Re: Dell Optiplex GX280 no boot and fan going crazy



@Antoshka

Thanks for your post. I had the same symptoms - intermittent boot failure with fan running flat out, intermittent locking up of the system when it did decide to boot. I had a dry joint on the mobo on the power connector's +12V line. No cap changing to get this system up and running again but your post pointed me in the right direction. It was hard to see, btw.

P.S. Any ideas what I'm gonna tell the boss (i.e. wife) how it's suddenly fixed after I ordered a 760 SFF?...