On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:34:40AM -0600, Brian Phillips wrote: > > I have a buddy with a video card with blown caps on it. We're trying to > figure out why they blew. He seems to believe it's a heat issue caused by > the fact his case is a low-profile case. > > The video card is an eVGA GeForce FX5200 low profile fanless model, AGP. > The case and motherboard is an HP something or other ;).
The GeForce FX5200 is 4 or 5 years old, right? That seems right about the time when there was that huge batch of bad capacitors. Dell ended up replacing the motherboards for all of the computers in the CS Department labs because of the issue. There are probably still web pages that describe how to identify the bad capacitors, so you might be able to find out whether this is the problem. Of course, it's possible that it's something completely different. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
