Posted on 11/29/2007 9:09:11 AM PST by edcoil
Yes, put in new power supply and now the motherboard is dead.
Good opportunity to turn that E-Machine into a great computer!
Go to newegg.com or something and buy yourself a sweet quality board, An Asus os Abit maybe and a faster processor for low bucks.
I meant an Asus or Abit brand motherboard.
Iv’e been using both brands since 1995 and never had any problems, They Hardly ever crash and are award winning quality boards....Plus they over-clock very nicely. :)
They are recommending a 159.95 replacement K8MMC51G
It is a socket 754 motherboard and I can get those a lot of places.
I bought a dell 4550 in 2002 that had a non standard powersupply case, it didn’t fit in standard atx cases because it was upside down.
There was also a non standard case fan that had inverted the power connectors, so that yhou had to either manually pull apart a replacement fan and resolder the wires, or go without the fan fault protection and fan monitor at the motherboard bios level..
Dell has been doing this a long time.
My biggest beef with Dell and eMachines is the small form factor models. The Intel video cards embedded in the Intel motherboards fry and take the motherboard with it way to often. We have a few customers that insist on buying Dells and buying these small form factor Optiplexes. They just never listen. We resell HP Business Line with the old Compaq boards and have never had any problems like this.
Our business sells a lot of Dells but we stay away from the lower end machines. Actually, we stay away from the lower end machines of all brands. If you cut corners on quality, someone pays the price ultimately.
Still I’d be talking to Dell customer reps about this situation. They may do something just in the interest of preserving their reputation.
I’ve dealt with this problem also, optiplex 270 sff is notorious for this problem, trying to buy even a 64mb half size agp or pci vidcard costs over $110 to fix, it usually is cheaper(if man hours isn’t included) to buy a new cheap case move the entirity of components over, and buy and install a new standard size 128mb vidcard.
Well those customers are contract, so they pay the same labor rate each month. As long as the PCs are under warranty they refuse to pay for new hardware. Of course when they do its another Dell Optiplex sff(rolls eyes).
This thread should be deleted. It has nothing to do with Dell. You people do realize that, right?
You signed up today to make a silly criticism of a thread from a month and half ago. Please don’t post to me again.
This does not make sense.
The MB doesn’t change polarity — I suspect that the new supply had its polarity switched, and when you plug that onto the MB, THEN you blow the MB.
Always verify the outputs when doing power replacements, or get someone to do it for you.
Sorry; stupid old thread claim jumper!
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