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Thread ID: 70697 2006-07-13 00:25:00 Help my pc has died FreakyNZ (10713) Press F1
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470456 2006-07-13 09:11:00 Last week exactly the same thing happened to me.
I took the machine to a tech to replace the power supply, but it turned out to be capacitors that had failed. 5 of them had juice oozing out of them.
I had to replace m'board and CPU.
Evidently, some time ago some m'board makers tried to use cheap caps that had bad electrolyte and this is the legacy.
TideMan (4279)
470457 2006-07-13 11:00:00 This website has been quoted here in other threads on similar problems.
It explains about the capacitors - not necessarily impartially, but useful for background.

http://www.badcaps.net/
Laura (43)
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