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Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:33 am**

dr_bar wrote:Damn, I hate it when computers get their mind set on screwing up your life...

I had a spontaneous reboot problem with one of my previous computers, spent forever and a day trying to resolve it as a software issue and realized finally that it was leaking caps. Had the MOBO re-capped and everything was fine...

what the heck is a leaking cap as it pertains to computers?

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:59 am**

-Holiday wrote:
dr_bar wrote:Damn, I hate it when computers get their mind set on screwing up your life...

I had a spontaneous reboot problem with one of my previous computers, spent forever and a day trying to resolve it as a software issue and realized finally that it was leaking caps. Had the MOBO re-capped and everything was fine...
what the heck is a leaking cap as it pertains to computers?

I think he means that some motherboards had a problem with leaking capacitors due to cheap electrolyte which can cause several hardware problems like instability.

If this is the reason, you had to recap the mobo?

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:52 am**

6:50 pm of day 2 of "the sieze". The server has been up and stable for 2 hours. Running backup with the quickness and hoping it goes. New server on order. Hopefully this backup ends in the next couple hours and I can go home. 32 gigs down, 60 to go.

Thanks for all the kind words and reading my griping.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:45 pm**

crossing my fingers for you

Posted: **Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:26 pm**

Posted: **Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:30 am**

I just overhauled my computer, it's a toshiba satellite p25 that I had to scavenge some parts for (new CD drive and upgraded the ram to 1gb) it's running great now.

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