[ale] CentOS keeps rebooting

David Ritchie deritchie at gmail.com
Sun Nov 17 17:15:00 EST 2013


Amazon sells a GX620 capacitor replacement set for $6.20 + shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/Dell-GX620-motherboard-Capacitors-repair/dp/B00B471KVQ.
There are YouTube videos on the replacement process... Google 'GX620
capacitor repair'

-- David


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Katherine Villyard <villyard at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 11/15/2013 7:49 AM, Brian MacLeod wrote:
> > On 11/14/13 12:21 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
>
> >> I have an old dell GX620 Small factor  that was giving for
> >> development, but I think it dying, not sure how to test it to
> >> see what needs to be fix.
> >
> > Dell GX620?  That sounds familiar.  I'm already leaning towards
> > bad caps because I believe I had to replace a whole mess of that
> > particular model.
> >
> > Yes, they should never change shape, and if they have, regardless,
> > they are bad.  This one is dead, time to move on.
>
> Yeah, I have memories of thousands of Dell GX620s, too.  But the part
> that inspires an urge for bad caps is the words "small factor."  That
> brings up memories of the Gateway Profile 5 and Profile 5.5, which I
> begged to be allowed to launch on a trebuchet at their end of life.  I
> was denied because the small factor/all in ones are hard to replace
> parts on, and they needed to hoard carcasses for the ones that hadn't
> been replaced yet.
>
> Sorry, man.  Those small factors are kind of brittle.
>
> - --
> Katherine
>
> "Be soft.  Do not let the world make you hard.  Do not let the pain
> make you hate.  Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.  Take
> pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still
> believe it to be a beautiful place."
> - --Kurt Vonnegut
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