Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Yeah, I know of the low-quality-capacitors-in-the-old-motherboards problem.
But would the bios setup run with no problems with capacitors on the
motherboard faulty? I'll look into it, but somehow I doubt that they are the
cause. It is some part of hardware that gets initialized only *after* the
bios, during boot. But then again, I can't be sure.
Sorry, I do have to ask...
I didn't buy a motherboard during the time they were manufactured with
the faulty capacitors, so I don't know how the boards act when they
start to fail, but I do know what it feels like when the capacitors in
the main power supply start to fail.
What motherboard are you talking about...and what time frame are you certain
was the time when it was manufactured with faulty capacitors?
My computer would boot and let me get into the bios setup with no
problem, but it would randomly fail once up and running, usually when
doing a big compile or running the cron tasks. As time when on, it
failed with less and less provocation. Finally it stopped booting
entirely. That is when I swapped power supplies and did a face-palm
thing wondering why it took me so long to realize the PS was going
bad.
And, how did you determine that it indeed was a capacitor that failed in
your power supply?
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