Dell replaced motherboards on 22 percent of the 21 million Optiplex computers it shipped from 2003 to 2005, due to faulty capacitors on those boards, according to documents unearthed by The New York ...

Ahh, unsealed court documents -- the gift that keeps on giving. Whether it’s the internal Microsoft e-mails made public in the Vista Capable case or Intel’s alleged strong-arming of computer ...

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Dell has spoken up regarding its side of the Optiplex hardware failure issue, which has been resurrected after legal papers suggesting the company had purposefully misled owners were unsealed. In a ...

Capacitors are an inexpensive little component on a PC motherboard, but they can be a costly headache for manufacturers when a whole bunch of them go bad. Last week, Dell announced it was going to ...

If you've been around a few years, you may remember a period in the early 2000s when a large number of motherboards from a variety of vendors began to fail in spectacular fashion. Symptoms ranged from ...

PC maker Dell has been accused of selling thousands of desktop PCs despite knowing the machines contained faulty components, according to recently unsealed court documents first reported about on ...

I have a few of these boards lying around and wanted to put them to use. They had P4-2.4 CPUs, I think one of them might have been a 2.6 before...any idea what these things can take?<BR><BR>Seems like ...

Dell is currently battling charges that it knowingly sold millions of faulty computers to its business clients, according to recently unsealed documents in a three-year-old lawsuit. Advanced Internet ...

Capacitors are an inexpensive little component on a PC motherboard, but they can be a costly headache for manufacturers when a whole bunch of them go bad. Last week, Dell announced it was going to ...