Re: FC5 freezes: due to bad Dell GX270 motherboard

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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 03:05 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Where to check:  Look on the motherboard for small black cylinders
> > with silver tops.  The cylindrical capacitors are about 1/4 of an inch
> > in diameter and one half on an inch high.  The silver tops have an X
> > on edged them.  Those silver tops are supposed to be flat or slightly
> > sunken in, not convex (swolen).  They are NOT supposed to look like
> > cupcakes baking in the oven, in other words.
>
> For future reference, that is a + and not an X. If you look
> carefully, you will notice one of the leads is below the +. Those
> are what are called electrolytic capacitors,and have to be hooked up
> correctly. If you mix the + and - leads, they tend to die rather
> quickly, and sometimes make a mess.
If you hook them up backwards,sometimes they let the smoke out ..and as 
everyone knows computers run on smoke and if you let the smoke out ...it 
won't work ;-)
>
> Mikkel
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