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Sounds like you got one of them. This fiasco happened about a year ago
or so.

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:10, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> I had a Dell Optiplex SX 270 (small form factor..about the size of a box
> of waffles) quit powering up.  Spent some time resetting the BIOS,
> trying now power supplies (external), etc, etc.  My student worker
> (CompE student) leaned over and pointed at a capacitor that had blown. 
> The thing had oozed out the top and fried, and no power was getting
> anywhere.  The box is only 1 year old (under warranty), and has some of
> the cleanest power on campus, so I can only assume that the parts used
> were the cheapest available.
> 
> Called tech support, and the tech asked me "Have you tried a new
> motherboard?".  I just had to laugh at her.
> 
> Anyway, I seemed to remember someone on this list bemoaning poor quality
> components in computers, and now I can testify to it.
> 
> :(
> 
> Jonathan Glass
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