[Sussex] PSU gone, new installed computer refuses to boot [Scanned]

[Grant Snelling]

Hi,

Hope this may be of interest to you or any of the list members...... ?!?

One thing to check for on the m-board are the capacitors. We are seeing
more and more 'weird errors' which more often than not end up being
failed or failing capacitors.

A visual check is normally all that's needed - open the case and look at
the top of all of the capacitors. If any of them 'domed' and/or been
leaking {normally seen as a crust on the top} then you've got a suspect
board. We've found that some boards can have most of them looking very
sick and still work yet other boards may only have one of two are do
some very strange things !

I'd also recommend checking your graphics card has we've seen blown caps
on these too.

This isn't just non-branded pc's we are seeing this on, but many branded
units. Some Dell Optiplex's seem have got a big problem with them - had
to get their engineers to replace three last week, all failed due to bad
caps. One unit was less than fours months old......and yes all of these
units were protected by anti-surge plug units.

Grant

Grant Snelling
Director
 
E-mpower.IT
Burdocks Farm
One O'clock Lane
Burgess Hill
West Sussex
RH15 0EX
 
Tel.   01444 250404
Fax.   01444 250405
 

-----Original Message-----
From: sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Christopher
Stromblad
Sent: 25 September 2006 3:38 PM
To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Sussex] PSU gone, new installed computer refuses to boot
[Scanned]

Hi list,

I've got a somewhat odd problem. Few days ago my PSU popped, decided to
not function. I baught a new one, but now my computer is acting all
funny. While memory tests run fine, and bios works and it actually
boots... somewhat.

Basically it now hangs at Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
Whatever it's supposed to do at this stage will not work.

I suspect that the motherboard was also damaged as I obviously didn't
have this problem before.

Anyone of you guys (girls) got any suggestions or thoughts? Guess a
computer upgrade is about time, been three years now.

// Chris


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