Re: Just threw out 3/4 Gig of perfectly good RAM for no reason...


"OhioGuy" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:etndmm$8ug$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
I've got a system that has been running unstable lately. It was based on
a
roughly 7 year old ECS K7VZA board, with Duron 1.3 CPU. I used the
ultimate
Boot CD to run some tests.

Memory kept failing. I ran several other memory tests. That failed
too.
I snapped the 512 MB PC133 stick in half and threw it away. I then ran
the
same test on some other old 256 MB stick of PC100 I had laying around.
That
failed 3 different stability tests, so I snapped it in half and threw that
away, too.

So, then I put a third PC100 256MB stick in there, and it failed, too.
I
started thinking, WAIT A MINUTE... not too likely.

So, I ran tests on the CPU, on the motherboard. Motherboard failed a
few
of the tests here and there, so I took it out to look it over.

Guess what? Half of the large capacitors were bulging, and two had
actually burst open. It was a wonder the thing even booted up properly as
often as it did.

Now I'm thinking I probably threw out two perfectly good sticks of RAM,
just because the tests were giving me errors when testing them. I wish I
had thought to look over the motherboard better first.

Does anybody make motherboards that use a different type of capacitor
other than the common electrolytic ones that tend to bulge and kill a
board?
I've had this happen to 3 of my motherboards now, and I think those cheap
capacitors are the only thing that has actually gone bad. I'm sick of
losing perfectly good boards because of electrolytic capacitors.



Good job you're not a Mechanic or heaven forbid a Surgeon.


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