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Andrea Ferraris wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Mobo: ECS K7S5A Pro with Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM |
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It may or may not be related to your problem, but the K7S5A model line |
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of ECS boards was very heavily affected by a run of bad capacitors. If |
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this is being used for your server, I'd reccomend against it. We had |
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about a 50-75% return/RMA rate on these boards. When replaced by a |
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similar, albeit one-revision-newer ECS board we haven't seen a repeat of |
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the problem. |
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Shame, too, because it's such a versatile, inexpensive board. |
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It's also possible that a blown capacitor could affect your ability to |
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monitor with lm_sensors, but in my experience the computer simply |
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becomes unstable or unbootable. In some cases, such as my own |
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workstation, a capacitor literally exploded from the board and flew |
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several feet out of the (lid-less) case. |
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-- |
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Stewart Honsberger - http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ |
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To teach is to learn twice. |
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-- Joseph Joubert |
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