anyone fix pc's?

[The Dad Fisherman]

Try re-seating the memory and the prcessor as well as all the cables.

And By re-seating I mean to re-move them completely and plug them back in.

see if that helps.

if that doesn't then just unplug all the drive cables from the board and try booting it up. You should get something on the screen just by booting to the bios.

If you don't more than likely the Motherboard is fried...even if you have a bad video card the MB should still produce some post beeps.

[Cool Beans]

Eric, you are right on, that definately looks like the infamous GX270. We replaced the motherboards on over 800 of them where I work, it is caused by Dell saving some $ and going with a cheaper capacitor manufacturer and the tolerances were not to spec and many of them were overfilled with cooling oil, and they swell frying the board. The capacitors in question are 3 or 4 of the larger capacitors (small round things about 3/16" diameter and 1/4" tall. they should be flat on the top, if you look closely at yours you I bet you will find they are rounded on top due to swelling. Its hard to tell from the pictures, but on the second picture, on the right hand side where the 4 yellow and black wires plug in, the capacitor to the left of these wires looks swollen. If any of these capacitors are swollen it is fried. Occasionally these capacitors will take the power supply with it. These mother boards are relatively cheap, same for the power supplies. They are not that hard to replace either (maybe 10 min). I used to have a few laying around the shop, I'll check around and see if I have one. I am sure I have at least a power supply. The chance this was caused by using an mp3 is almost impossible. I'll get back with you if I have a mother board. Post back on here if you can see any of those capacitors that are swollen.

Cool Beans
Newport, RI

[Cool Beans]

When I looked at the ebay page I can see that it is a GX-280. very similar motherboard, but we did not have as many of these go bad, but some did. But, more than likely he used the cheaper GX-270 motherboard when he refurbished this pc, as it is interchangeable and will fit in any of the GX-260, 270 or 280 models.

Cool Beans