----- "Farran Lee" wrote: > not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware side > of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot at all? > > I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a motherboard, its pretty much useless. You can tell, by if they bulge at the top, and sometimes leak some brown/orange residue (DON'T TOUCH!)
Apparently, there was some industrial sabotage a few years back (2000 ish I think) which affected a whole bunch of capacators used on motherboards... though this is quite rare... Johnathon
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