Well, my S@H RAC is going to drop sharply . . .

[Bateluer]

My Dell Optiplex seems to have died. I came home from work yesterday to find the system powered down with the power LED blinking amber. I held the power button down until the system powered down completely and the LED was off, then turned it back on. It appeared to boot normally and loaded XP without a problem. However, after only a few minutes, the system powered down again. I unplugged the Optiplex and left it until today.

Today, I cracked open the SFF case and blew out all the dust. It was likely that it was either a power issue or a heat issue. There was a lot of dust inside, but not enough to stop any fans from spinning. I powered on the system with the case open in order to verify that the fans were spinning properly, and yes they were.

However, thats where things went down hill. As XP began to load, I smelled something burning, burnt electronics smell. I hit the power button immediately.

Seems 24/7 Seti finally did in the PSU.

My Compaq SFF system still functions, but its running Ubuntu linux and I can't get BOINC to work on it for the life of me. So, only my C2D desktop is running S@H now.

 

[RaySun2Be]

a moment of silence for a downed cruncher.....

 

[petrusbroder]

The ambulance is howling in the distance --- coming closer.
I hope you will be able to help this downed cruncher!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

 

[BadThad]

I hate Dell's cheap power supplies, especially the ones they put in the SFF systems.

 

[JHutch]

On the bright side ... the power supply is usually one of the cheaper and easier things to replace (provided the case isn't some weird non-standard configuration ... in which case all bets are off).

JHutch

 

[Assimilator1]

Sorry to hear about the downed cruncher
Hopefully it'll be a cheap fix!

What spec is that Dell btw?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: JHutch
On the bright side ... the power supply is usually one of the cheaper and easier things to replace (provided the case isn't some weird non-standard configuration ... in which case all bets are off).

JHutch

Not necessarily. If they have just a few wires switched, it wouldn't be too hard to find a pin-out of them, and grab an extraction tool and change the wires around.

 

[Bateluer]

Its an SFF GX270 SFF system, and the PS appears to be a non standard design. I didn't see any on Dell's support site for sale, nor did I see any that maxed the form factor at Newegg.

At first I though about using either the Antenc Tru380 or the Fortron 450 that I have sitting around here, but I don't think I'll go through the trouble. The system only had an RAC of about 133 anyway. And with the summer kicking off here, I had planned to shut down my work horse machines to save on the electricity costs and AC costs.

Next winter, I may pick up some more powerful crunchers though, hopefully some dual core machines will find there way into the 200 dollar price range.