[rescue] Sun crushes the used Sun market

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Jul 6 01:14:07 CDT 2005


On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:21:21PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> Even Dell's more expensive line (GX270 I think) had this problem... it bit everyone, because everyone uses the cheapest parts they can.  Comparing an E250 motherboard to anything non-Opteron x86 just makes the differences obvious.

The iMac G5 was hit by this too - I had to replace the entire "midplane" of
the system in mine:

http://www.mrbill.net/photos/imacmidplane/

Compare picture 744 (bulging caps in original midplane) to 762 (new midplane).

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas



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