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<blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 861250" data-attributes="member: 52972"><p>Bill,</p><p></p><p>If you have a Dell Optiplex PC look inside and see if the capacitors are puffed up. They look like little black cylinders with silver tops. If the tops look puffed up, your mother board is toast...That was a very common problem that Dell had problems with. No recall and they would only replace the motherboards during the warranty period. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One of the symptoms of the capacitor problem is the video intermitantly going out, or other weird things. Usually shutting the PC off for a few hours will appear to fix it for a while, but it will continue to get worse. We have about 10 Dells with the puffy capacitor problems and most also have problems with the power supply units as well. We have noticed that most of the power supplies loose their fan first thant the PS dies later...probably from overheating. We replace the power supply but the capacitors have already been damaged.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To check your monitor, just plug it into another PC and see if it comes up. But I suspect it's the moterboard</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Richard</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard L, post: 861250, member: 52972"] Bill, If you have a Dell Optiplex PC look inside and see if the capacitors are puffed up. They look like little black cylinders with silver tops. If the tops look puffed up, your mother board is toast...That was a very common problem that Dell had problems with. No recall and they would only replace the motherboards during the warranty period. One of the symptoms of the capacitor problem is the video intermitantly going out, or other weird things. Usually shutting the PC off for a few hours will appear to fix it for a while, but it will continue to get worse. We have about 10 Dells with the puffy capacitor problems and most also have problems with the power supply units as well. We have noticed that most of the power supplies loose their fan first thant the PS dies later...probably from overheating. We replace the power supply but the capacitors have already been damaged. To check your monitor, just plug it into another PC and see if it comes up. But I suspect it's the moterboard ...Richard [/QUOTE]
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