[Frantzie]

Thanks. I recall years ago a few eMachines doing amazing things serving things up 24x7. Doing things they were never designed to do when the quality was even worse.

I am wary of buying a Dell again after Michael Dell hooked up with Soros, Flowers and John Paulson to buy Indy Mac after Soros, Flowers and Paulson shorted it into the ground with the help of Schumer.

I have bought Dell’s before but they are on my do not buy list now. I would probably but HP.

Thanks for the tips. I think I may go with a new machine and put the old drive in an enclosure to work as an external to access old stuff.

If the capacitors or MB are fried I may just pull the HD out. Trying to remove a MB looks to be a bear.

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Trying to remove a MB looks to be a bear.

It looks like a bear, but it's actually pretty easy. You do it from the bottom after disconnecting things.

Let me know if the problem is blown capacitors.

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I have bought Dell’s before but they are on my do not buy list now.

I have a friend who owns a computer repair business. He swears by Dells. He's not political.

I haven't bought a Dell in years, but my friend pointed me to a Dell website where refurbished Dells can be bought very inexpensively (<$350 for a dual-core with a large hard drive). Next time I need a another desktop that's probably where I'll go.