Recent content by 88carrera

I'm going to try replacing the caps with new ones from http://www.badcaps.net

Thank you sneekypeet. On my way to ebay to place a bid now.

What I thought was a bios issue turns out to be blown capacitors (see this thread http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=103240 I have my drives in raid configuration and now need to transfer the data (mostly family pictures) to either a new motherboard or the same as I have now...

Motherboard is fried Well guys while looking around in the motherboard i saw these capacitors--as you can see several are bulging and many leaked. I'm guessing this has been building over time and it finally died the last time I tried to power up the system. I have two choices now: 1...

I disconnected all the drives and just left the video card on the psu. It will stay on the Asus logo screen, where I can press tab to show POST. If I press DEL-no response. I thought maybe flashing the bios would help. I an running 1007 and can go up to 1008 so I put that on a floppy with an...

(As you can see this is an older gaming computer I still use to run older simulations that won't work with Vista and store pictures so I may not boot up for a month or two at times.) I went to boot it a few days ago and the familiar sound of hard drives spinning up following by a clicking...