Dell Warns of Layoffs & Motherboard Replacements
Dell is going to have to replace numerous motherboards in Optiplex GX270 and GX280 business desktop PCs, due to faulty capacitors. If you have any of these systems at work or school you might want to contact Dell before your capacitors fail.
The replacements are necessary as some capacitors on some motherboards shipped in its GX270 and GX280 systems failed after a period of months. The failure, which is evidenced by a PC that won’t boot, comes when the capacitors bulge and fail. Dell refused to say how many PCs might have received the bad capacitors or when they might have been manufactured. The layoffs and the motherboard replacement program, which Dell says it’s handling by working with individual customers, are both included in a $450 million charge the company said it would take against its fiscal third quarter earnings, which will be announced on Nov. 10.
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