hamei wrote:
No excuse for this. That part at least should be bulletproof. Without an L1 you can't do
anything
.
Nothing is bulletproof. I find it hard to doom an entire model because some develop the same error. In the last several years I have picked up literally dozens of these systems with only one having an L1 issue. One look at the one on ebay and you can see it has had a hard life. Once these systems leave the main company that used them there is no telling what has happened to them.
I have pulled apart several of these to find corrosion on the back of the main board. For this to happen they had to have been used or stored in a wet/ humid environment. When we lived near the beach I replaced several power supplies and motherboards in our HP/Dell PCs.
Is it a stunning design? no. Is a worthless pile of a computer? no Take any bad ass Dell and throw it around, store it out side for two years, ship it 3000 miles poorly packed and then tell me how reliable it is.
I have sold and continue to sell the O350s with very little grief. Like I PMed you, "thanks for tainting my target market"
Do you still want me to send a few mainboards for your beloved O350?