> Looks pretty much like the mobo is toast. I hooked up a serial cable, > set CONSOLE ON, and tried to boot from the ROM. > > No joy. And no luck with booting from disk or net either. Grr. > > Is there any point trying to flash the bios? > If the capacitors are swelled up, then the CPU is probably not running correctly. Will possibly run with little load, so acts like it is working, But when it really has to go to work, it will fail to operate correctly, As the bad caps, can't keep the core and io voltages stable.
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