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Years and years ago I was given a Dell (Pentium I?), it was running a bit warm, so I got a suitable fan for that (standard) motherboard. When I opened the box
by jjgreen 5y ago
Years and years ago I was given a Dell (Pentium I?), it was running a bit warm, so I got a suitable fan for that (standard) motherboard. When I opened the box to install it, I found that it was not quite standard, the extra-fan power socket was not there. After some research I discovered that Dell ordered special versions of standard motherboards with only the bits that they were using in their models, shaving a few cents off the price. I determined to avoid Dell ever since (so avoided the whole "exploding capacitor" thing of the early 2000s).
- artificialLimbs 5y agoThere was another round of exploding caps in the mid-late 2000s as well. Or at least, the batch of hundreds we worked on had those issues.
- jjgreen 5y agoI did a 4-month stint as sysadmin in a University which was exclusively Dell in the middle of the great capacitor plague, dozens of machines sent back every week, they stopped asking why and just replaced them. Happy days :-|
- Delk 5y agoMy memory isn't the best but I'm under the impression that not-quite-standard or otherwise crappy solutions were fairly common in major brand desktop PCs of that era. I'm not defending those solutions, and I don't know if Dell's builds were even more limited than some other brands or not, but I doubt those kinds of issues were unique to them.
- auxym 5y agoI had to Dremel out a Dell desktop case to fit a standard ATX power supply, circa 2005.