memtest86 on Asus CUBX with 448M RAM

[Dominic Lepiane]

On May 19, 2006 04:00 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> > > From: "Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > On 5/18/06, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> > > > Look for any caps that are leaking or have expanded and become
> > > > rounded on top.
> > >
> > > Even with relatively current boxes. The caps in Dell boxes last just
> > > long enough for the waranty to expire <grin>. We're replacing 2-3 a
> > > week now (GX260,270 series). Fortunately, some of these are still
> > > under waranty.
> >
> > I'm *very* sorry to hear that. There are a goodly number of GX260s among
> > my clients.
>
> We're even sorrier to hear it. I just replaced another DOA GX270 box
> this afternoon - capacitor meltdown, etc.


If it's any consolation, the G280s seem to be pretty bad as well.  And we 
probably only have a half dozen on site.  Half of them have new mainboards, 
all of them have at least one new drive.  The servers (maybe a dozen) have 
all been good.

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Dominic Lepiane

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