On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:48:25PM -0800, Michael LeBlanc wrote:
>The problem got worse and worse until it just
>died a couple of days ago. I took out the motherboard and noticed that
>some of the electrical components (the ones right in front of the
>processor) were all scorched and leaking some black residue.
Hmmm -- what components are you talking about? I don't see any leaking
stuff at least (thankfully!) :-)
>I turned it on and went into the bios's "PC-health" section
>just in time to see the processor voltage drop steadily to about 1.6v.
>Then the screen went blank.
Like I said, the voltages seem OK.
>It might not be the same problem you are having, but it sounds similar.
>You might want to check those capacitors (i think...) in front of the
>processor. Maybe they are overheating?
Hmmm, doesn't really make sense (I think I see them now -- they appear
to be OK)...
>Or, I've heard that KA7's had a
>voltage issue with some graphics cards. Maybe it's related...
I've got two of them -- one Matrox Mystique G200 (AGP), and one Matrox
Millennium I (PCI)... Never been a problem with any of them :-)
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