Does any one know which Mother board will fit into Optiplex GX 270 Case ???? My one just burned and is out ow warranty Dell want to charge me for £180 for new motherboard and £330 with procesor - I believe I can find replacement for much cheaper price Linux is like wigwam - No windows No gates , and APACHE INSIDE :

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&... http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Optiplex-G... I think I overlooked the UK pricing in your post sorry. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-GX270-P4...

nice one find me a model which will fit ;] I went through that couple times already with my suplier ;] and no luck as far Linux is like wigwam - No windows No gates , and APACHE INSIDE :

i think only a Dell board will fit, they make them different to the generic standard. We have those dell gx270 pcs where i work. A lot have failed due to bulging capacitors - is that the problem with yours - the capacitors are the cylinder shape components sticking up off the board. they should be flat topped and not curved and bulging at the top. It is possible to replace these capacitors, but it is a bit fiddly. If you buy a second hand dell motherboard somewhere like ebay you may just be buying another one with capacitors on their way out. Someone who is handy with a soldering iron and good eyesight and a steady hand might be able to do it. A traditional radio/TV repair man would be the right bloke if it is clear on the motherboard which capacitors have failed - but are there any traditional TV repair men left?

I know problem with caps for 100 machines I replaced arround 40 but they were still on warranty now warranty is gone and one of machines acted very weard - over installation of xp it was loading installation files whole ages - I thougt it may be HDD as it was acting befour when I loaded Brand new samsung it was still this same than I changed DVD ( HDD from faild machine work on other system, this same with memory and VGA ) Procesor was quite dogy when I loaded it into good Optiplex this same when I swapt parts from good OPtiplex onto bad Mother board - no chance to run - this make me believe that Motherboard and Procesor need to be replaced - Processor is not a problem - motherboard chipset look like it was overheated it is not burned but I had few problems with different motherboards - Right now I'm looking some cheaper suplier of mother board - I understand that Dell is the best for own systems but total price it just make me mad - I was hoping to find some dell refubished components but no luck for now - Im still looking Ps. Traditional TV repari man + Radio repare man - my Dad ;P he got good hands to that :) but he live more than 1000 miles from my place so I need to wait untill I will meet him ( next week :D ) Linux is like wigwam - No windows No gates , and APACHE INSIDE :

Another thing about replacing the motherboard... If you used a non-dell replacement, you would possibly run into problems with the PSU.. "some" Dell PCs use PSU's with standard connectors wired in non-standard ways!! (I did have a link to a web site discussing this but appear to have lost it, sorry!) IE if you don't use a Dell Motherboard, I'd replace the PSU too...

i know a lot of older dells had power supplys with dell specific wiring on the 20 pin plug, but i have a gx260 and a gx270 - both of the small form factor type (the ones that take laptop size cd drives) and they definitely have standard type power connector to board , one 20 pin and one 4 pin. I have made them work with a standard atx psu as part of trouble shooting when i was haveing problems with them so that proves these have standard plug wiring(although the standard psu wpuld not fit into the case, i just had it laying beside the case). The gx260/gx 270 names are used on various styles of case by dell so i can not be 100% certain this applies to all shapes and sizes of gx260/270