On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 08:53 AM, KevinO wrote:
> This sounds like you have a very serious power supply problem.
> Electrolytic
> caps don't generally explode unless you run them backwards or with
> significantly excessive voltage. I strongly suspect the later in this
> case.
> Probably most everything that was in the box at the time is 'hurt' at
> this point.
Actually, he might have had the same problems I have had (I have had
capacitors blown on two motherboards). The first time, I forgot to
read the documentation and inserted a processor into a motherboard it
wasn't approved for (if you care, I inserted a Athlon XP processor into
an Athlon motherboard). The second time this happened, my best guess
was that a short occurred because of the massive amounts of dust that
collected inside the case. In both cases, the only damage done was to
my pride, pocketbook, and motherboard.
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