re: PC still rebooting.. bad RAM? New Chip/motherboard.
Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 11:14 am
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Posted by triplate
(20834 messages posted)
Low power has absolutely no effect on capacitors...other than taking longer to discharge.
On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 10:44 am, Someone wrote:
>Ok that was quite descriptive. I have a couple of ideas that I will mull over for
>a few minutes while I reread your story a couple of times, but the first thing that
>comes to mind is a friend of mine bought his first PC, I put the whole thing together
>for him in normal quality fashion. a few days after he had it, it started doing
the
>exact same thing. rebooting randomly. I really beat my head on the wall for awhile
>before the wall gave me an idea. My education is in electronics, working as a repair
>tech at the time I happened to own a shiny new $400 Fluke digital multimeter with
>a logging function. so I hooked it up to the wall socket, and low and behold brownouts.
>It is an undercurrent condition about the opposite of a power 'surge'. and probably
>the cause of your capitors failing. The soulition a $65 power conditioner. Cheapist
>thing you ever saw not bigger than a 20 pk of cds, but it solved the problem. This
>is a no brainer. take the computer to someone elses house and see what happens.
Like
>I said I will give it some more thought, and I will post if I com up with anything.
>Good luck
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