On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:21 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > > ----- "Farran Lee" wrote: > > not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the > hardware side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot > at all? > > > > > > I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a motherboard, its > pretty much useless. You can tell, by if they bulge at the top, and > sometimes leak some brown/orange residue (DON'T TOUCH!) > > Apparently, there was some industrial sabotage a few years back (2000 > ish I think) which affected a whole bunch of capacators used on > motherboards... though this is quite rare... > > Johnathon >
I guess I'm fine then :/ =================================== Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P
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