FC5 freezes: due to bad Dell GX270 motherboard
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Sep 12 22:05:24 UTC 2006
Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> Where to check: Look on the motherboard for small black cylinders
> with silver tops. The cylindrical capacitors are about 1/4 of an inch
> in diameter and one half on an inch high. The silver tops have an X
> on edged them. Those silver tops are supposed to be flat or slightly
> sunken in, not convex (swolen). They are NOT supposed to look like
> cupcakes baking in the oven, in other words.
>
For future reference, that is a + and not an X. If you look
carefully, you will notice one of the leads is below the +. Those
are what are called electrolytic capacitors,and have to be hooked up
correctly. If you mix the + and - leads, they tend to die rather
quickly, and sometimes make a mess.
Mikkel
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