Dell Optiplex GX 260 - 3 drive failures, 2 NIC failures - pretty bad 7

[daveoasis]

Dell Optiplex GX 260 - 3 drive failures, 2 NIC failures - pretty bad performance in three years in my opinion.

I have two other Optiplex towers P300 & P450 with long run durations of continuous duty over 3 years run time with occasional reboots. They have had zero hardware problems and run in a warm house (80 degrees) with a UPS.

Is there anyone else experiencing these types of problems or other problems?

Thank you. Dave

 

[garebo]

First off, a lot of this stuff is over my head, and i basically understand but i am not qualified to give any sugggestions.
However, perhaps the people who sell the UPS's might be someone you might contact. They may have UPS's that are more sensitive to power fluctuations and they may be able to help you out and its possible it could cost a lot less. I do see that you are using UPS's already, so i am saying that they may very well have some special, better units that you may not know about, maybe just came out not long ago. Just a thought, trying to help.


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[BionicJohn]

that is interesting, "faulty auto-update which not reversible" - on the BIOS? Sounds like a wierd problem.

I'll do my best to find out more. I believe it is something to do with the USB controller, either not working or not being detected following an update.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[Ddraig]

Almost all of our PCs these days that we put into our offices are the Dell small form factors. We haven't really had that many problems apart from hard drive failures with the GX 260 models, the SX 260s-270s are a pain. We had approximately 20 - 30 PCs in our public library and 6 months down the road with in a 2 week time span we had to replace about 50 - 75% of them. Apparently a flawed design on the motherboard coupled with extreme heat as the capacitors popped.

We've just gone to the SX280s has anyone had any problems with these?

 

[BionicJohn]

DaveOasis
One of our boys has restored the USB ports on two Dells (GX240s I think).
I'm waiting for him to report the details of the problem and solution. He's been off-site for a couple of days.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[BionicJohn]

DaveOasis
Stranger and stranger.
My lad reports the USB "failures" were caused by a printer driver, probably a Canon Image Runner, which had nothing to do with USB ports as the IR is accessed via the NIC card…

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[bcastner]

BigJohnD,

Are you surprised?
Lexmark printer drivers used to drive me crazy. There is no reason for Cannon not to jump in and add to my grief.

Glad you sorted at least this part of the USB puzzle.

Bill

 

[BadFrog]

Ddraig,

You may find this interesting:

http://www.badcaps.net/

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy"
Albert Einstein

 

[daveoasis]

BadFrog

You wrote: "You may find this interesting:

http://www.badcaps.net/

"

It doesn't work? Dave

 

[BadFrog]

daveoasis

Thats odd, it works for me. Are you on proxy? Did you try copying and pasting the link into the URL?

Don't know what to tell you, I can click the link in my post and yours and they both pull up....

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy"
Albert Einstein

 

[ANFPS26]

It works fine for me. Good info.

Jim