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Doesn't surprise me. We had a few Dell AIO's in our office and whenever the CPU was under high usage for more than 15 minutes the motherboard would start malfunctioning. USB ports would stop working, built-in screen would flicker or short out entirely, etc. As soon as the CPU usage let up, all the issues went away and it would work normally again even without a reboot. Same behavior, multiple identical models in our office doing the same thing. Clearly a design defect/flaw.

Dell's solution? Replace almost every part under warranty under numerous repairs. As expected, issue still persisted and support had no explanation. We had no luck trying to escalate the issue as a design flaw. We decided to cut our losses and just order new PCs that weren't AIO's since they wouldn't be thermally pushing the limits.




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