OT: system shuts off sporadically

[Miles Beck]

On 1/16/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> The third was most recently when a Dell system had capacitors that were
> leaking - you could see the gook on the top of the capacitors when you
> looked at the motherboard. This is most likely the issue and I would
> recommend that you look carefully at the capacitors on the motherboard
> and if there is anything other than dust on the top of some of them,
> replace the motherboard as there is no other option.

Check out this link: http://www.badcaps.net/

There are some photos there that can show you what bad capacitors look
like. I've heard you can replace the capacitors but have not done this
myself.