Dell Optiplex drives

[teh114]

I work in a school environment and the Dell Optiplex and Deminsion have taken the place of a lot of the Compaq Deskpros. When something goes wrong with the deskpros, normally it was the video card or network card. When something goes wrong with the Optiplexs and Deminisons. 9 times out of 10 it the hard drive can not be found, or the Floppy can not read. If I reinstall the OS on the Hard drive it works fine. Has anyone ever heard of of these problem with Dell optiplex and Deminsion hard or floppy drives. Is there anything I can do to prevent this or something that possibly triggers the failing hard drive or OS in the OPtiplexs and Demisions. And if it is a known problem with Dell hard or floppy drive is it restricted to certain models? Dell Optiplex GX150,250, GX260. Dell Dimision L_CXE

 

[zeitghost]

Who manufactured the hard drives and what size are they?


rgds
Zeit.

 

[edfair]

Dell optiplex machines I've been around haven't appeared to be any more susceptible to failures that other brands. When the hard drives fail what does fdisk show for partitions?

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Draxus]

I work totally on Dell Optiplex desktops and Latitude notebooks and I've never seen the problem you're referring to. Sorry....

 

[IslandCustom]

After dozens and dozens of Dell OptiPlex's (GXa's, GX1's, GX110's, GX240's, GX260's, GX280's) and lots of Dimensions, Inspirons and Latitudes, as well as a couple of PowerEdge servers, I can't say I've had any problems that were out of the ordinary across the Dell product line.

 

[marcbf]

Just had two drive fail in two days on Optiplex GX260's. Both running WIN2K, P4 1.8ghz, and 20 gig Maxtor 6E020L0 drives.

Both machines came up BSOD, then "drive not found" on reboot.

Both machines less than 1 year old. Machines are shut down at night and remote start each morning.

 

[kewlcoder]

hey did you check the power suply that this thing gets..
do this take the same machine and after some time put it in a diff power supply line and check it.

some times if the SMPS is not working fine or the voltages are not up to the mark you get such problems...

get the power lining rechecked for voltages and AMPs
Optiflex are decent machines... they do not have such problems..
i had such problems with IBM.... now rectified
take care
bye

 

[mikeymikey]

I`ve had probs with hard drives in older optiplexes as the setting from factory is cable select. Set to master etc. can cure it.