memtest86 on Asus CUBX with 448M RAM

[Michael Hipp]

> From: "Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com>
> On 5/19/06, Dominic Lepiane <archangel at nibble.bz> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> FWIW, our company has dropped it's contract with Dell. All new servers
> and desktops now come from HP. We can only hope that we won't be back
> in the same mess 2 years from now.

This seems like some sort of irony or deja-vu-all-over-again. A few years ago I stopped recommending HP because they had become so cheesy cheap and Dell seemed to be putting out quality hardware. This treadmill gets tiresome after a while.

Michael