Hi all, About two years ago I built my parents a new Ubuntu system from scratch. Unfortunately, a couple of months back, they started having problems with the system shutting off randomly (cold power-off). I spent many hours trying to figure out what the cause was. It seemed to be related to use of the onboard video, since disabling 2D acceleration made it somewhat more stable, but the system was still unacceptably unstable.
Finally I gave up and bought them a new motherboard and associated hardware. It is running fine now, on virtually the same hardware setup. Shortly after that, in an unrelated spat of hardware trouble, my brother started having difficulties with one of his older LCD monitors. He found others who had the same issues and sent me this great article on diagnosing/fixing bad capacitors: http://wcoastsands.blogspot.com/2009/11/samsung-syncmaster-215tw.html So I went back and looked at my parents' old motherboard and sure enough, two capacitors on the board are bulging very similarly to what is described in that article. It may be a < $5 fix for an adventurous person with a soldering gun. I would do it myself, but unfortunately this motherboard does not have a CPU or memory in it anymore, since I moved it over to my parents' new system. So I can't easily test it. I would be more than happy to give this board away, along with its case and power supply to anyone who is willing to try and get it working again with new capacitors. Otherwise I'll just have to give it to free geek, and I doubt they will put in the time to repair it (though correct me if I am wrong). The system is a Shuttle SN68SG2. Specs can be found here: http://global.shuttle.com/product_detail_spec.jsp?PI=647 Thanks! tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
