Re: hardware troubleshooting

On Tue, August 24, 2010 2:21 pm, Clint wrote:
> If any of the capacitors on your motherboard or video card have swollen,
> leaked or burst, that's the problem. Otherwise it's failing when the
> operating system attempts to initialise a hardware device that isn't used
> during memtest. It could be the video card, sound card, network, or
> anything else. Testing the PSU (or using a different PSU) is always a good
> troubleshooting step for unusual problems. Just for fun, try booting
> windows in safe mode to prevent it from loading all its hardware drivers.

Clint, thanks


m/b looks OK, except for a bit of black dust next to power connector, next
to PSU grille

I'll try another PSU

it's windoze-free PC... but, I'll try an IDE HD with windoze, just to see


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