yeah, apparently my problems come in pairs - my only other post is about my 2 dead/dying tv's.
so, I have a Presario 5010us (I think), that isn't really itself anymore...
I've replaced the motherboard with a gigabyte board, the CPU to 1.4 instead of 1.2, the RAM with 2 sticks of Samsung 256mb PC133, a video card, a OCZ power supply, and 160gb HDD. I think thats everything. basically, the computer is now a throw together and was working great for being 10 years old.
one motherboard, the original intel motherboard, had an issue with restarting on me under load, if I scrolled a page too quickly in FF it resetted, or if I did certain things in games it'd reset.
I replaced it with a gigabyte because they're known for working well. less than 1 year later, the gigabyte board is refusing to boot, it was being sporadic at first booting sometimes, sometimes not, but now its decided not to boot at all anymore.
I'd rather replace the caps and see if that fixes the problems (does this sound like a cap problem or something else?) instead of buying yet another board and having it fail on me with in a year.
so I guess my question is, does anyone know where to start? does anyone know which is the better board to repair? can anyone verify these are bad capacitor issues or another problem? yes I've looked for physical damage to the caps but I was mainly looking for bulging tops and didn't see any, didn't think about looking for exploded bottoms...
so, I have a Presario 5010us (I think), that isn't really itself anymore...
I've replaced the motherboard with a gigabyte board, the CPU to 1.4 instead of 1.2, the RAM with 2 sticks of Samsung 256mb PC133, a video card, a OCZ power supply, and 160gb HDD. I think thats everything. basically, the computer is now a throw together and was working great for being 10 years old.
one motherboard, the original intel motherboard, had an issue with restarting on me under load, if I scrolled a page too quickly in FF it resetted, or if I did certain things in games it'd reset.
I replaced it with a gigabyte because they're known for working well. less than 1 year later, the gigabyte board is refusing to boot, it was being sporadic at first booting sometimes, sometimes not, but now its decided not to boot at all anymore.
I'd rather replace the caps and see if that fixes the problems (does this sound like a cap problem or something else?) instead of buying yet another board and having it fail on me with in a year.
so I guess my question is, does anyone know where to start? does anyone know which is the better board to repair? can anyone verify these are bad capacitor issues or another problem? yes I've looked for physical damage to the caps but I was mainly looking for bulging tops and didn't see any, didn't think about looking for exploded bottoms...
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