Apparent hard drive failure

[imported_Jimbo]

Originally Posted by wobblywill

jimbo

are you thinking about the laptop battery fiasco, sony also supplied dell? however you are right, dodgy psu's are often a source of multiple organ failure in pc's, as with everything else the techspec keeps changin and rumours keep on being rumours :?

Hi Will,

No, what I meant was that people had bought replacement MB's for their Dells and fried them due to the pinouts being non Standard ATX (same plug but different voltages on different pins) read the link - it sounds about right - I love Dell machines and install them weekly in networked environments but they use proprietry hardware a lot.

But yes there has been a lot of problems with certain batches of Laptop Batteries, and the recall is still open I believe.

Jimbo