[ale] CentOS keeps rebooting

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sun Nov 17 20:04:35 EST 2013


That's very useful but sort of sad. Caps are not supposed to be wear
components :-(
On Nov 17, 2013 5:17 PM, "David Ritchie" <deritchie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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