You're too right....in fact....just about every mobo manufacturer aronud bought bad cap's from the company that made them. IBM is still replacing system boards that have those cap's on them. They don't always ooze anything though. You can tell if they're bad if the tops of them are "popped" as well. By "popped" I mean bulged and rounded. The top of a good cap is supposed to be flat.


On Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 12:06 am, MaddMaxx wrote:
>It's possible. Abit at one time had a series of bad capacitors which required motherboard
>replacements. Check the capacitors on your board. The tops of bad ones ooze a nice
>brown syrup. Easy to spot. It will cause the problems you describe.
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Written in response to: re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (MaddMaxx: Sunday, September 26, 2004 at 12:06 am) There are presently no replies to this message.

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