[wplug] Woke up this morning to a noisy machine...hard drives?
Duncan Hutty
dhutty+wplug at ece.cmu.edu
Fri Apr 29 08:28:43 EDT 2005
On 04/28/2005 04:30 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On 4/28/05, Russ Schneider <russ at sugapablo.com> wrote:
>
>>Actually, this turned out to be the power supply fan. And replacing it on
>>my Dell has proven frustrating as hell. The supply itself has grooves in
>>it to snap into the case so I can't just buy another generic power supply,
>>and the fan is hardwired to the board inside the supply so I cant even
>>replace the fan inside the damned thing.
>
>
> One of the frustrating things about buying Dell hardware is that you
> have to buy Dell replacement parts, it's nearly impossible to use
> standard off-the-shelf parts in a dell apart from PCI cards, hard
> drives and sometimes memory. But if you have a hardware contract with
> Dell, it's often nice to be able to just tell them you need a
> replacement, and they'll have it to you the next day. Not very nice
> for the single-seat user, but nice in a department full of dell
> workstations and servers.
>
I'm still waiting for a motherboard after a week
--
Duncan Hutty
System Administrator, ECE
Carnegie Mellon University
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