After rebuilding my daughter's computer with an ECS ECS P4VXASD2+ motherboard, I thought that her problems with this unit would be history. The fresh install of XP seemed to be the ticket. However, after performing all of the updates, I installed antivirus software, Symantec 10 Corporate Edition for which I have multiple licenses. On both occasions when I scanned a data drive for viruses (it is the original drive for her computer), the computer locked up. Since I wanted to make sure that the drive was virus-free before doing any more work on the system, I uninstalled SAV and installed Avast. It is running fine, and the computer is not locking up.
As I posted elsewhere, there is one OST capacitor that is clearly bulging and has brown stuff oozing out of it. So I'm sure that the board has at least one bad cap. What I am wondering is whether a bad cap problem can cause the motherboard to lock up with one software application but not with another? The unit ran for hours without locking up. It locks up every time with SAV. I'm guess that there is something about the system that SAV doesn't like, but since caps can cause so many different problems, I thought I would ask.
It turns out that this board is not worth recapping. It has a 1GB memory limit. TigerDirect has a Biostar P4M900-M4 478 motherboard for $59 that I'm going to pick up tomorrow and install.
As I posted elsewhere, there is one OST capacitor that is clearly bulging and has brown stuff oozing out of it. So I'm sure that the board has at least one bad cap. What I am wondering is whether a bad cap problem can cause the motherboard to lock up with one software application but not with another? The unit ran for hours without locking up. It locks up every time with SAV. I'm guess that there is something about the system that SAV doesn't like, but since caps can cause so many different problems, I thought I would ask.
It turns out that this board is not worth recapping. It has a 1GB memory limit. TigerDirect has a Biostar P4M900-M4 478 motherboard for $59 that I'm going to pick up tomorrow and install.
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