I have a S900 with the following: Sonnet 450/g3, 500mb memory, 3gb SCSI boot drive, VST with 4 drives 40, 12 6 and 3, Reflashed PC Voodoo III/2000, USB and Firewire. running MacOS 9.1 and OS X 10.2.8 This beast has now run fine for months. Problem: It wasn't booting. It would come up to the MacOS 9.1 screen, and blink once to reset the monitor, then, instead of loading extensions it would...sit there. Nice Mac screen, but hardly useful. Tried several boot drives. Same thing. I popped the side and... there on the floor was one of the little round capacitors the motherboard seems to have a zillion of. Original location, unknown. After lots of tinkering, PRAM resets, power offs/ons, and cursing...it booted. AH! it works! Relief! The next morning....boot up, and. It hangs again. <grumble...and 2 choice words in Algerian I know> Anyone ever seen this behavior, lost a capacitor? Any uber-techs know what that cap may be and where I could get a replacement (Radio shack?) to solder back on if possible? I have some experience there and can probably figure where it came loose...if I pull the motherboard and spends some time looking..
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