From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: spontaneous reboots.. what to look for
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:59:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A45AFB6E-16B9-452B-821E-F2D088935755@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tz6uguh4.fsf@newsguy.com>
On 16 Feb 2009, at 17:30, 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'
Capacitors.
http://images.google.com/images?&q=bad%20capacitors
But don't rely on this - a component can fail fail without it being
visible.
IME the most common cure for nonspecific hardware failures is
replacing the PSU, but in your case I would also swap out the graphics
card early.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-16 17:59 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 [this message]
2009-02-16 17:59 ` Joseph Davis
2009-02-16 0:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
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