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I have been given an old T630 which has spent a bit of time in a light industrial environment, some exposure to dust and heat. It works OK except when it turns off and it doesn't log anything in th...

I have a T630 that has started powering off after a random amount of time, usually less than 12 hours. When it powers off the backlight of the front panel LCD goes off as do all lights on the case, and iDRAC also doesn’t work. So it looks like there’s a problem in the power. Dell support seem to have run out of ideas, presumably because they don’t want to suggest that I replace parts and they know I’m not going to pay Dell support.

I suspect it could be a faulty Power Backplane board J14R7 0J14R7, how would I test for that?

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Yeah if you’ve eliminated all of those, it’s probably the board.

    • etbe@lemmy.mlOP
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      12 days ago

      I replaced the Power Backplane board J14R7 0J14R7 and it’s been running for just over 24 hours. As it was an intermittent fault I don’t count this as proof that it is fixed (I’ll wait another couple of days to be sure) but previously it never lasted 8 hours so it seems most likely.

      The old Power Backplane had no puffy capacitors, no scorch marks, and no other indication that it was faulty. I also used all the same cables so it doesn’t look like a cable issue.

      Thanks for your comment it helped give me confidence to spend the money on a new board. The other option I had considered was to just buy another system that would take the CPUs I bought.