Which motheboard were you using Sayamindu ? I have had similar problems in my office (two of them off like this..)
Rajesh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sayamindu Dasgupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 1:27 AM Subject: [ilug-cal] [OT] Exploding/leaking moterboard capacitors - anyone ?? > Hi all, > For the past few weeks, my main production system (an Athlon XP 2600+ > running on a nForce2 based motherboard with 512 megs of RAM) has been > acting weird. It simply refused to boot up with the first attempt, and I > had to turn the thing off and on several times before the system could > come up. Also, coupled with this was random freezes, garbage on the > screen, etc. > Meanwhile, our LUG coordinator's system, which has similar specs (he has > 1 GB of RAM and a different SMPS) refused to boot up, no matter what. > After some head scratching we decided to run memtest86 on my box (which > was, at least, booting up) - and I got around 700 errors in the first 5 > minutes, and then the machine froze. Whooppeee-whoop - I thought, and > opened up the box to inspect the RAM modules. The RAM looked OK. > However, I noticed some brown crusty substance on one of the larger <snip> -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
