Dell replaced motherboards on 22 percent of the 21 million Optiplex computers it shipped from 2003 to 2005, due to faulty capacitors on those boards, according to documents unearthed by The New York ...

Capacitors are an inexpensive little component on a PC motherboard, but they can be a costly headache for manufacturers when a whole bunch of them go bad. Last week, Dell announced it was going to ...

Those recently unsealed documents, according to The New York Times, indicate that at least 11.8 million Dell OptiPlex PCs shipped between May of 2003 and July of 2005 were at risk of failure from ...