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Re: PC Power Supplies

Subject: Re: PC Power Supplies
From: Piers Kittel <mailing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 13:00:28 +0100
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>> Any ideas? I guess I can pull out the cmos battery for an hour or
so
>> to make sure the settings have gone, but anything else I can try?
>> Remove the cpu?
>>
>> Thanks,

Oh yeah I forgot, check for any blown caps on the motherboard.  I.e.
capacitors that are bulging or leaking.  Some examples are in pics
below:

http://www.pavelec.net/adam/CapsCrop.sized.jpg
http://jpowell.blogs.com/jason_powell_church_it/images/dellcaps.jpg

This seems to be a fairly common motherboard failure lately.

Cheers - Piers

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