Rafael Skodlar wrote: > Electrolytic caps close to CPU for voltage regulation are frequent > culprits. I had to replace one motherboard few months ago because of > Linux server frequent reboots. It turned out that caps around the CPU > were all "puffed up", i.e. they let smoke get out. You can tell that by > their top being open and not flat. > Good point! There were a number of motherboards with bad capacitors from about 2002-2004, Dell took a multi-MULTI-million $ writeoff to replace several hundred thousand motherboards. See http://www.badcaps.net/ for some info on the problem. Not sure if this has anything to do with your problem, but it is possible.
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