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On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 23:11 -0800, Cliff Wells wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 22:43 -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: |
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> > Hello all, |
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> > Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a "zombie |
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> > machine" two times. Here are the symptoms: |
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> It does sound like hardware. I'd check three things first: |
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> 1) Are all the fans in the system working? |
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> 2) Check for swollen or leaking capacitors (see |
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> http://www.trendit.co.za/capacitor.htm). This is *really* common, so |
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> don't discount it until you've checked. |
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An added note on this: you can actually repair boards like this (you can |
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replace any capacitor with a capacitor of equal or greater capacity), |
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but I've found that it's not worth it. It can take a couple hours and |
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is pretty hit or miss (I once replaced half the caps on a dead board |
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which got it working, then replaced the other half and it never worked |
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again :P). |
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Regards, |
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Cliff |
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