And Dell managed to get on my nerves today...

[Volt]

Just for giggles I went to Dell and priced out a replacement sort of in the mode your operating in. $269 and light years ahead of the Optiplex you were using. Keeping with the Linux server mode your operating in, this should work nice and break no banks. You can always spend more if you like.

I had a customer that hit too large shipments with those caps in the 260/270s. I know of at least ~800 MOBOs that got replaced over a 5 year time frame. Wasn't just Dell that got hit with those as well. My home built Azus MOBO had them as well (and burned up). A few other of the major manufactors had issues as well. So goes life when 2 or 3 people are making all the MOBOs in the world.


Operating System Windows Vista® Home Basic SP1, 32-Bit VHB31E

Processors AMD Sempron™ LE-1300 (2.3GHz, 800MHz, 512KB) 546M130 [317-1128]

Memory 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 2 DIMMs 2GB82

Keyboard Dell Consumer Entry USB Keyboard and Mouse EKLOM

Monitors No Monitor

Video Cards Integrated ATI Radeon HD3200 Graphics IV

Hard Drives 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™