I quit buying Antec power supplies because of them; three successive power supplies dying due to them is enough. The last one that I bought was a Silverstone, and haven't had a whit of trouble.
-- John W Reames jream...@verizon.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On Oct 31, 2012, at 20:42, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > Similar deal, I had a vid card that had almost all the cheepcheepchinee > capacitors blown, replaced it and things went back to normal. It is easy to > inspect the vid card and mobo for blown capacitors, they have their caps > oozing nasty-looking foamy stuff. I had a coupla old mobos go bad too, never > did figure out what it was, easy enough to replace. Newegg had a mobo on > sale a day or two ago, cheepcheep but you want one that will take your > processor. If you got 4.5 yr out of it owes you nothing. > > --R > > On 10/31/12 8:33 PM, Rick Knoble wrote: >> Troubleshooting hardware is a tedious process. It is easier, albeit no less >> tedious if you have enough spare parts to construct another computer. My >> first suspect in your instance would be the power supply. If you have a >> spare, swap them out and see. If you don't have a spare, pull the old one >> out and have a computer shop test it. If that tests good, disconnect all >> peripheral devices, HDD's Floppy drive, DVD drive, and any other boards. If >> it POSTs shut it down, and hook up devices one by one until you find the >> culprit. If it doesn't POST, memory, CPU, or MOBO is suspect. Having known >> good memory and a known good CPU would be a big help here. Also, inspect the >> MOBO and all cards for bulging or popped capacitors. A visual inspection >> could be very revealing. >> >> I had a home built computer that did the same exact thing and it turned out >> to be the video card being bad. I have seen failed memory, failing hard >> drives, bad floppy drives, optical drives crapping out, and failed power >> supply's all cause similar problems. Memory problems can be found with a mem >> check program run from a live CDROM. The only way to isolate other problems >> is trial and error. Like I first stated, I would start with the power >> supply. It is the first in the list of usual suspects. >> >> Rick >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 31, 2012, at 7:08 PM, "Greg Fiorentino" <gf...@dslnorthwest.net> >> wrote: >> >>> OK, so my home-cobbled HTPC started acting flaky a few days ago. Sudden >>> reboots, BIOS date gone, changing BIOS settings uncommanded, one CMOS >>> checksum error. I assumed unit needed vacuuming, possible CMOS battery >>> failure, possible power supply failure. Vacuumed, replaced P/S with new >>> spare, tested CMOS battery shows 3 _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
