[OT] Machine won't boot

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Aug 20 15:14:51 UTC 2008


Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> writes:
>> Yeah, I know of the low-quality-capacitors-in-the-old-motherboards problem. 
>> But would the bios setup run with no problems with capacitors on the 
>> motherboard faulty? I'll look into it, but somehow I doubt that they are the 
>> cause. It is some part of hardware that gets initialized only *after* the 
>> bios, during boot. But then again, I can't be sure.

Sorry, I do have to ask...

> I didn't buy a motherboard during the time they were manufactured with
> the faulty capacitors, so I don't know how the boards act when they
> start to fail, but I do know what it feels like when the capacitors in
> the main power supply start to fail.

What motherboard are you talking about...and what time frame are you certain 
was the time when it was manufactured with faulty capacitors?

> My computer would boot and let me get into the bios setup with no
> problem, but it would randomly fail once up and running, usually when
> doing a big compile or running the cron tasks.  As time when on, it
> failed with less and less provocation.  Finally it stopped booting
> entirely.  That is when I swapped power supplies and did a face-palm
> thing wondering why it took me so long to realize the PS was going
> bad.

And, how did you determine that it indeed was a capacitor that failed in 
your power supply?




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