Subj : Re: Real Modem on VOIP?
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Sep 24 2026 07:44 am

-=> Sean Dennis wrote to Bo Holt <=-

 SD> But my particular GX620 was a very good computer and I got my $10 out
 SD> of it many times over.  Its power supply was rather iffy but again,
 SD> Dell's proprietary power supplies of that era tended to have the
 SD> bleeding caps issues also.

 I was running a Dell shop at the time. the power supplies blew hot air
 over the back caps, if memory serves. I was able to wangle a handful of
 spare motherboards from Dell as we started seeing troubling numbers of
 failures.

 Their D620 laptops failed similarly, the video chipset would overheat
 and fail. Their workaround was to send out a BIOS update to run the
 fans faster and more often rather than fix the problem.



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