On Monday 20 October 2003 07:45 pm, David Phillips wrote: > Ben Maas writes: > > I had a capacitor blow on a 4 month old motherboard earlier this > > year. I started to smell smoke and started sniffing around the > > computers. After pulling the power cords out of the back of Eridor I > > got the case open just in time to see two capacitors fading from a > > nice bright orange. > > I had that happen on an Abit BP6. The board still worked for at least six > months after that. Yeah, this was an Abit board well (K7A-RAID maybe?), but this one didn't work after it blew. It cascaded into two other capacitors, rupturing the first one. Processor, RAM, and all cards were recoverable though, so at least wasn't a complete loss. -- Ben Maas - Technology Architect Open Technology Systems, LLC ----------------------------------------------------------- eMail: bmaas at open-techsys.com Web: http://www.open-techsys.com Phone: 952.448.3121 Fax: 952.448.4944 Cell: 612.743.3674 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list