Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joseph Davis <joseph@××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: spontaneous reboots.. what to look for
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:57:41
Message-Id: 4999A99F.30704@uh.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: spontaneous reboots.. what to look for by Harry Putnam
1 I believe he is referring to capacitors, you should be able to google
2 for some pictures of common capacitors.
3
4 They look like little barrels, usually dark blue as I look at my
5 motherboard... They have special electrical paste in them, if it leaks,
6 they are dead.
7
8 Harry Putnam wrote:
9 > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> writes:
10 >
11 >> Do the easy thing first. Clean your case, reseat all cards and
12 >> memory modules and check all caps while doing so. Any of them
13 >> deformed? The 'head' going up? Strange stuff around its feet?
14 >> Congratulation, you need new hardware.
15 >
16 > Sorry to be a numb skull here but what do you mean by `caps'
17 >
18 >
19 >