AGP PRO Video replacement -

[Bob Goodwin]

g wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>   
>> I have an F-10 box that will not post, it just keeps trying to start 
>> intermittently.  I have reduced the system to power supply, motherboard, 
>> and video card with the same result.  Changing the power supply does not 
>> help.  I do not have  a spare video card to try but would like to try 
>> one before I give up on the motherboard-processor.
>>     
>
> before you go thru trouble of video card, have a look at;
>
> http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&as_qdr=all&lr=lang_en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22bad+cap%22+AND+%22ASUS+P4B533%22&spell=1
>
> then cut search bar to just "bad cap". note badcap.net, check them out
> for more detail.
>
> rest of links will also give you some good reading about capacitor failures.
>
> 'bad cap' also hit several power supply mfg's also.
>
>   
Ok, I read that.  I will pull the board out again and examine it to see 
whose capacitors they used and look for anything I can see with my 
limited eyesight.  I've changed a lot of swollen electrolytics but have 
trouble seeing what I'm doing anymore ...  And they don't have to have 
external signs to be bad, they can look ok and just be sitting there 
doing nothing!  Computer boards are a hard thing to troubleshoot if not 
impossible.

I prolly need to bite the bullet and buy something else, I need another 
computer.