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| 795653 | 2009-07-29 03:17:00 | Any bad capacitors on the motherboard? And what is your PSU? Is it one of those nasty Hyenas that have a habit of being useless junk? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 795654 | 2009-07-29 03:49:00 | Any bad capacitors on the motherboard? ah, you beat me to it. The m/b is around the era of bad caps issue, that era m/b certainly can be unusually unreliable now anyway. If it shuts down or restarts for no reason or is occasionally very hard to turn on then its m/b. |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 795655 | 2009-07-29 21:44:00 | Any bad capacitors on the motherboard?I don't think so. And what is your PSU? Is it one of those nasty Hyenas that have a habit of being useless junk?I think I got it at Dick Smith's a few years ago. It's been very reliable so far. ah, you beat me to it. The m/b is around the era of bad caps issue, that era m/b certainly can be unusually unreliable now anyway. If it shuts down or restarts for no reason or is occasionally very hard to turn on then its m/b.It seems to be OK now. I it worked fine all of yesterday and I had it on most of the night doing defrags and error checking and stuff and it didn't crash or spontaneously restart once ... so fingers crossed it's OK now and will last until November! |
pukunui81 (15121) | ||
| 795656 | 2009-07-30 23:07:00 | So this morning I boot up the computer and it tells me it's found a PCI device. Hmm ... I wonder what that could be? Considering that I only have one PCI device, my sound card, it's not that hard to figure out ... So now after the initial "collapse", I've had a supposedly broken hard drive, RAM stick and sound card all recover more or less on their own. Weird, eh? |
pukunui81 (15121) | ||
| 795657 | 2009-07-31 01:09:00 | Technically no. Your onboard USB and ethernet etc are also PCI devices. They just connect directly to the southbridge and don't use a PCI slot. Dirty connections and loose cables could explain it and so could a faulty board and/or PSU |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 795658 | 2009-07-31 12:49:00 | As well as the badcaps (www.imagef1.net.nz) possibility, it could also be this en.wikipedia.org(metallurgy) dc.metblogs.com |
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