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Answer» Hi guys, Your capacitors are busted. That was a picture I posted to serve as an example. Quote from: Raptor on April 19, 2007, 06:20:07 AM Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on April 19, 2007, 06:04:29 AMHa!! I thought that image was from Slicx...Your capacitors are busted. Anyways, those in the pic are bustedSorry but to which problem was the busted capacitors related? I gave the fans a look and all 5 seem to be working fine. I have loads of those cylinder shaped things all over the motherboard though I'll guess that the ones I've highlighted are the ones you are refering to? Upon inspection they do have some signs of what I would call rust. I guess that warrents calling them busted right? The 3 highlighted are definitely not as shiney as all the other similar-shaped things (pardon my ignorance).As soon as they seem to be 'bulging' or leaking any kind of fluid they're broken. The symptoms of broken capacitors are slow downs and the inability to power-up at all from time to time. At one point, it'll refuse to do anything at all. So if your capacitors are leaking, back-up your data and look into replacing the motherboard. The picture you posted really isn't all that accurate, I can't tell whether they're leaking or not. I was just about to TAKE a better picture when I realised that it wasn't rust on them, it was dust. I cleared it off and now they look almost perfect. They now look nothing like the ones in the picture you posted - no brown-ness at all. Though it's clear that my comp has the symptoms of fauty capacitors, they don't look like the problem. Unless that is, they are bulging very slightly but they just look like all the other ones atm. Would a better pic still be the best course of action? Or could something else be causing this problem?Try replacing your PSU with a known-working and stronger one if you have one lying around. im having the same problem, No leaks too. It powers up, just does not boot every time. It only has problems when I have to do a hard power off "by button" or power outage sometimes. , when i shut down in windows it's fine. - maybe update drivers for mainboard? - chk power drain? - boot sequence error? what do you guys think? Quote from: Lurch on April 19, 2007, 05:57:00 PM im having the same problem, No leaks too. It's best to start a new topic...even though your symptoms may be similar it will recieve better attention than at the middle of another persons thread.I have spare ones lying around but they are pretty old and atleast half the strength of the one I am using currently. Is there some kind of test I can do? Like an analysis program for the PSU? Or would it be safe to try a weaker PSU?No, I'd use nothing <400 Watt, otherwise you might risk damaging system parts. OK then I don't have anything I can try. Could there be anything else wrong with it that is causing these problems? If not then what would you guess at the cause being? I'd like to know if it's worth buying a new CPU or motherboard at this stage. EDIT ~ I'm not sure if it's relevent but I have gotten mild electric shocks off the back of my computer, mainly the USB ports and recently the speakers (though it happens only rarely). Maybe that might mean something Thanks. |
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