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

[Christopher Stromblad]

Grant,

Thanks for the advice, I shall definitely have a look at that. Also just
noticed that it seems as if the DVI port on the GFX-card have been hit
as well.

Sigh, ironically a couple of months ago I managed to convince myself
that I actually didn't need a computer upgrade, so I settled for "just"
a pair of two WS monitors... looks like I'll be doing a fully upgrade
after all :-/

Chris

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 21:09 +0100, Grant Snelling wrote:
> 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
> 
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> -----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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