Re: [MBZ] OT capacitors on video card

2010-11-11 Thread Rolf
How old is the board? There were some huge recalls like 5 or so years ago for a bad run of caps that got used in mobos and vid cards. -Rolf On 11/10/2010 10:27 PM, Rich Thomas wrote: So my main computer was rebooting and giving me the BSOD (WinXP) and finally tonight I spent about 4 hours tryi

Re: [MBZ] OT capacitors on video card

2010-11-11 Thread Rich Thomas
Well a video board is not particularly inexpensive, makes me wonder why they skweez out a few cents on the manufacture. -R On 11/10/10 11:01 PM, Mountain Man wrote: --R wrote: I'm gonna try to order some and see if I can fix it just for the hell of it. Apparently this is a common proble

Re: [MBZ] OT capacitors on video card

2010-11-10 Thread Dieselhead
Ay bra! Wen you stay Hawaii? So my main computer was rebooting and giving me the BSOD (WinXP) and finally tonight I spent about 4 hours trying to sort it out. Turns out it was bad capacitors on the video card, worked fine in Safe Mode but when trying to boot into full windows I kept getting

Re: [MBZ] OT capacitors on video card

2010-11-10 Thread Mountain Man
--R wrote: > I'm > gonna try to order some and see if I can fix it just for the hell of it. >  Apparently this is a common problem, they used cheap chinee crap for > components to save 42cents on the manufacture. Cool that you are gonna do the fix yerself. Amerikuns are idiots about price. Price

[MBZ] OT capacitors on video card

2010-11-10 Thread Rich Thomas
So my main computer was rebooting and giving me the BSOD (WinXP) and finally tonight I spent about 4 hours trying to sort it out. Turns out it was bad capacitors on the video card, worked fine in Safe Mode but when trying to boot into full windows I kept getting the BSOD with a video driver me