"Eero Ahonen" <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote in message
news:47ad8fc7$1@news.povray.org...
> Nekar Xenos wrote:
> >
> > I can't afford a new PC at the moment at all, so is there anything I can
do?
>
> Check the capacitors at the motherboard and replace the faulty ones.
>
> This one's OK:
>
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/malu/kirjasto/mbl/sahko/elektrolyyttikonnsaattori
n_purku.gif
>
> and this one is not:
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/whurd/Bad.jpg

Most of them look like the last one....  :(

At least they're not leaking ;S

>
> See the top - at the last picture it's "growing". They also can even leak:
> http://www.asti-usa.com/support/appnotes/65.html (pictures at the end of
> the document)
>
> > I have a Athlon XP 2400 Socket A using the onboard 128Mb SiS graphics
card
> > and a 250W power supply.
>
> Sounds like the timing (motherboard's age) could hit the end of the
> latest worst season of capacitors.
>
Dust to dust....  :;(

-Nekar

Post a reply to this message