[Full-Disclosure] DELL 1600 and 1650 potential fire risk

[Cael Abal]

Chris Cozad wrote:
> Has anyone experienced any of the supposed problems with the Dell 1600
> and 1650 servers? Apparantly a percentage of these servers shipped early
> last year have a fault on the motherboard, whereby the video chip
> actually burns up in a huge cloud of smoke.
>  
> We are getting conflicting reports out of Dell, depending who we talk
> to. The support technicians have all said they have seen 3 or 4 of these
> failures each over the past 6 months or so, but our account manager kind
> of glosses over the problem.

Hi Chris,

Personally, if my office and everyone in it was conceivably in peril of
imminent destruction by raging inferno I don't think I'd let my account
rep 'gloss over' the problem.

Do you not like your co-workers?  :)

Take care,

Cael