It turns out that Dell had issued a recall for my model of laptop a few years ago. Last summer my laptop failed because of a defect known to the manufacturer. Briefly, Dell bought capacitors from a fly-by-night electronics company in China. The factory was selling cheap
capacitors built with a stolen recipe-- Their corporate spies had stolen the formula from another that was doing the actual research. This was great for them as far as short term profits go. Only the formula was a prototype. These capacitors are filled with a chemical cocktail that gives them the specific electrical properties that are needed to make them work correctly. But the recipe didn't contain the preservative. So witouth the preservative, the caps will work for a couple of years before swelling up, leaking, and sometimes exploding. The eploding capacitors would be easy enough to repair if that was the only thing that has gone wrong. But their failure caused a chain reaction of electronic failure. They fried my the grahics card and my windows xp partition.
I bought the parts to repair my broken Dell Latitude laptop off Ebay a couple of weeks ago.
ch
Capacitors are easy enough to find on some place like Digikey, but nobody sells the GPU chip.
I have also had to replace the Inverter (fluorescent light balast for the screen) adn the fluorescent light bulb that lights the lcd screen. Another 80 tiny screws
by the time my computer died, the recall had expired. I even contacted Dell, and they refused to repair it or honor the recall /make good on their defective item. I was not notified of the recall. It's not the kind of thing you find out about on your own until the thing breaks and it affects you.
capacitors built with a stolen recipe-- Their corporate spies had stolen the formula from another that was doing the actual research. This was great for them as far as short term profits go. Only the formula was a prototype. These capacitors are filled with a chemical cocktail that gives them the specific electrical properties that are needed to make them work correctly. But the recipe didn't contain the preservative. So witouth the preservative, the caps will work for a couple of years before swelling up, leaking, and sometimes exploding. The eploding capacitors would be easy enough to repair if that was the only thing that has gone wrong. But their failure caused a chain reaction of electronic failure. They fried my the grahics card and my windows xp partition.
I bought the parts to repair my broken Dell Latitude laptop off Ebay a couple of weeks ago.
ch
Capacitors are easy enough to find on some place like Digikey, but nobody sells the GPU chip.
I have also had to replace the Inverter (fluorescent light balast for the screen) adn the fluorescent light bulb that lights the lcd screen. Another 80 tiny screws
by the time my computer died, the recall had expired. I even contacted Dell, and they refused to repair it or honor the recall /make good on their defective item. I was not notified of the recall. It's not the kind of thing you find out about on your own until the thing breaks and it affects you.