"faizankhan666@hotmail.com" <faizankhan666@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> paulmd@efn.org wrote:
>> faizankhan666@hotmail.com wrote:
>> > I buyed DELL Optiplex GX270 just six months ago.It was intel P4
>> > with
>> > 2.8GHz.When I try to ON my PC yesterday I recieved an orange
>> > light on
>> > my monitor and green on my CPU...nothing else...even not "DELL's
>> > title"
>> >
>> > .Computer man said that IC is burnt...cannot be replaced...he
>> > said all
>> > the processor is
>> > useless now...so what can I do now?
>>
>> Call Dell. These have bad capacitors, dell is replacing them.
>
> I bought it 2nd hand...so no guarantee.
>


Then take it to a computer shop since obviously they more know than
you about computer hardware. Get an estimate and find out if it is
cost effective to have it repaired or to have the motherboard
replaced.