RE: DELL 1600 and 1650 potential fire risk

["Chris Cozad" <ccozad () sci-aust com au>]

Thanks for that John. That looks like it. Although from what the techies
I have spoken to have said, it is a bit more serious than what that
article says. They were saying that the whole unit is basically rat-sh*t
afterwards.
 
They stressed that the hard-drives went as well, so make sure backups
were pretty frequent.
 
I don't know, mabey if the techs were actually from Dell, they would be
a bit more responsive.......lol
 
Chris
 

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Cael has a point.. :-) A quick google gives this:
 
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/21/HNdellfixes_1.html
 
...which may be what you're looking for.
 
John.

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Cael Abal [mailto:lists2 () onryou com] 
        Sent: Tue 16/03/2004 06:04 
        To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com 
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        Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] DELL 1600 and 1650 potential fire
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        Chris Cozad wrote:
        > Has anyone experienced any of the supposed problems with the
Dell 1600
        > and 1650 servers? Apparantly a percentage of these servers
shipped early
        > last year have a fault on the motherboard, whereby the video
chip
        > actually burns up in a huge cloud of smoke.
        > 
        > We are getting conflicting reports out of Dell, depending who
we talk
        > to. The support technicians have all said they have seen 3 or
4 of these
        > failures each over the past 6 months or so, but our account
manager kind
        > of glosses over the problem.
        
        Hi Chris,
        
        Personally, if my office and everyone in it was conceivably in
peril of
        imminent destruction by raging inferno I don't think I'd let my
account
        rep 'gloss over' the problem.
        
        Do you not like your co-workers?  :)
        
        Take care,
        
        Cael
        
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