Posted by Derek MacKeddie on 10/06/06 19:55

The message <1155.505T224T11623683angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk>
from "Angus Manwaring" <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> contains
these words:

> 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

> 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.

Angus,
replacing the capacitors would possibly fix the problem, it's
worth trying before a new motherboard.
It worked for me with a Gigabyte VAXP motherboard.
The 'Gold thing' is a heatsink for one of the motherboard chips,
possibly the South bridge chipset.

--
Derek

"Some days you're the pigeon,some days you're the statue"

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