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Spotting dodgy capacitors

  • 22-01-2005 1:38am
    #1
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭


    I'm having problems with my PC which I suspect are motherboard-capacitor related. However, every other time I've had cap. related problems, they've always been obvious because the capacitors leaked. Here's the problem I'm having:

    When I run Windows - its generally fine, until the video acceleration kicks in after which it falls over pretty quick, with a BSOD. Without the video acceleration it seems fine.

    I have no nVidia drivers on my Debian Linux install, which happily ran CPU burn overnight.

    I've tried reformatting totally and reinstalling windows, but it hasn't improved the situation at all - if anything, its got worse.

    Memtest86 came up clean, so no memory errors.

    When I look at the caps on my motherboard - while none of them are leaking, and none appear to be bulging obviously, they have an 8 point star logo on the top of them, but on some of the capacitors, this logo is completely distorted. So its not impossible.

    I don't know what to do about this stability issue, I've tried a different video card, driver changes and no matter what I do it seems to crash. Should I sent my motherboard back for replacement while its still under warranty?


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