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From: Joseph Davis <joseph@uh.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: spontaneous reboots.. what to look for
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:59:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4999A99F.30704@uh.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tz6uguh4.fsf@newsguy.com>

I believe he is referring to capacitors, you should be able to google 
for some pictures of common capacitors.

They look like little barrels, usually dark blue as I look at my 
motherboard... They have special electrical paste in them, if it leaks, 
they are dead.

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> Do the easy thing first. Clean your case, reseat all cards and
>> memory modules and check all caps while doing so. Any of them
>> deformed? The 'head' going up?  Strange stuff around its feet?
>> Congratulation, you need new hardware.
> 
> Sorry to be a numb skull here but what do you mean by `caps'
> 
> 
> 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-16 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-15 23:42 [gentoo-user] spontaneous reboots.. what to look for Harry Putnam
2009-02-15 23:56 ` Mark Knecht
2009-02-16  0:26   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-02-16  1:01     ` Mark Knecht
2009-02-16  0:26   ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-02-16  0:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-02-16  0:22   ` Saphirus Sage
2009-02-16 17:30   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-02-16 17:55     ` Mark Knecht
2009-02-16 17:57     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-02-16 17:59     ` Stroller
2009-02-16 17:59     ` Joseph Davis [this message]
2009-02-16  0:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick

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