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Posted by the dog from that film you saw on 10/06/06 18:43
"Angus Manwaring" <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 03-Oct-06 22:45:39, Colin Wilson said
>
>>Try taking the side off the machine and look closely at the capacitors
>>around the CPU socket - if any have a slightly "domed" top (rather than
>>flat) or you see any "oozing" fluid it could well be that.
>
> This is weird. My son's pc has recently stopped working. Its perhaps 4
> years old. We've tried swapping hard drives, graphics card, moving the ram
> about etc. Then I read this thread, and thought I'd take a look at the
> motherboard.
>
> I took this picture this afternoon. Is that an example of the problem?
>
> http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/images/yuck.jpg
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> The capacitors on the left all look fine, but those on the right are
> either domed or pushing out yucky stuff.
>
> So would taking it to an electronics friend and asking him to replace the
> affected capacitors be a viable solution?
>
> And is the Gold thing the cpu, my son says not - I thought it was.
gigabyte dont make cpus!
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