HAGENS BERMAN

Date Filed: August 17, 2010
Court: U.S. District Court
Location: New York
Ticker Symbol: DELL

Consumers who purchased a Dell Optiplex computer may be eligible to participate in a class-action lawsuit filed by Hagens Berman in the U.S. District Court of New York.

Dell Inc. allegedly sold Optiplex computers between 2003 and 2005 with defective motherboards and failed to properly address these issues with consumers. As a result, several people claimed they experienced serious hardware failures with their Dell computer, which materialized as a blue screen or thermal error message, a system shut down or an inability to reboot properly.

Failures to the computer’s motherboard, home to the central processing unit or the computer’s brains, can cause permanent data loss and can also cause overheating, which may lead to a fire, the lawsuit states.

Dell first learned about its motherboard defects in January 2004. However Hagens Berman attorneys have information indicating the computer manufacturer knew long before then.

The suit claims Dell intentionally sold various Optiplex models with faulty motherboards, and knew about the nature and extent of the problem those models would have on consumers. The suit also states that Dell used faulty motherboards for consumer repairs.

Dell estimated that 8 million of 11.8 million units sold have faulty motherboards.

Hagens Berman intends to prove that Dell violated several state and federal laws. If the Court agrees, consumers may receive a repair, replacement or refund for their defective computers as well as retribution for damages cause by these system failures.

If you purchased a Dell Optiplex or experienced similar issues with another Dell workstation or laptop, you may be eligible to be part of the class. Click here to contact HBSS to find out more.

Updates

July 7, 2011: Hagens Berman is investigating additional reports which suggest that a number of other components – including hard-disk drives, power supplies, fans, ICH5 chipsets, and DDR2 RAM – may also be defective.

If you own a Dell Optiplex computer manufactured between 2003 and 2006, especially one of the GX270, SX270, and GX280 models, and your computer has exhibited frequent crashes, so-called blue screens of death, no-post issues, disk drive malfunctions, thermal failures, or is otherwise inoperable, you may have helpful information that can aid the firm’s proposed class-action lawsuit.








        

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