I work in a small office and about 1 year ago everyone in the office received new custom built computers. All of the computers were built by the same company at the same time and all are networked together and 3 are using XP and 7 are using 2000 OS's. Recently one of the PC's just started to randomly reboot. Shortly after another began to randomly reboot, then another and last week another. On the 1st PC we changed the PSU, moved the ram and checked system log for errors and all is believed to be okay. The manufacturer just says bad motherboard on all systems. Could this be? Last week while the last computer randomly rebooted it crashed one of the files on the database. Can anyone help me? Is my computer in danger of this as well ?

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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.


On Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 10:42 pm, Cruella wrote:
>I work in a small office and about 1 year ago everyone in the office received new
>custom built computers. All of the computers were built by the same company at the
>same time and all are networked together and 3 are using XP and 7 are using 2000
>OS's. Recently one of the PC's just started to randomly reboot. Shortly after another
>began to randomly reboot, then another and last week another. On the 1st PC we changed
>the PSU, moved the ram and checked system log for errors and all is believed to be
>okay. The manufacturer just says bad motherboard on all systems. Could this be?
> Last week while the last computer randomly rebooted it crashed one of the files
>on the database. Can anyone help me? Is my computer in danger of this as well ?

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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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