RE: [PLUG] Computer Won't Boot

[<brad-plug@litech.org>]

My understanding on the capacitor problem was that they would be
physically different (b/c they sort of exploded).

All of the capacitors on this motherboard look normal.

What doesn't look normal, however, is when I pulled off the heatsink,
there was almost no thermal paste left on the processor (nor on the
place where it connected to the heatsink).  I would almost go as far as
to say that there was no thermal paste left.  So, I'm going to try to
get more paste and see if that works.  Grrrr.

-brad

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Tom Hornberger
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:57 AM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Computer Won't Boot

On Friday 25 June 2004 09:42, brad-plug@litech.org wrote:
<snip>
> From the moment I give it power, there is a
> strange smell emanating from the area near where the CPU connects to
the
> motherboard.

Could be the capacitors on the motherboard that filter the power coming
in.  
There was a rash of bad caps on Taiwanese mobos awhile back.

Tom
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