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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org> To: <discuss at blu.org> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 1:45 PM Subject: [OT]Dumb hardware question > My wife's windoz system freezes randomly and I don't believe it is > software. I put in a new power supply, but that did not fix the problem. > I reseated the boards. However, I have not been able to reseat the CPU > (AMD Athalon). The heat sync is clipped on and I don't want to use brute > force to pull it off. With this little info, anyone want to take a quick > stab at advice to remove the heat sync. > > (My next step is to bring up Knoppix and see if I get a freeze here). You may already have looked into this; I had purchased an Athalon and a Duron CPUs along with 2 MSI K7T Pro 2A mobos back in 2000. One died in 02/2002 and the other in 03/2003. They both had this problem: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html They both started with about a week's worth of random lock-ups, degenerating to the point where it no longer POST. They both have the same set of capacitors explode. A quick check of all your capacitors and a Google of the motherboard brand + type may save you some time and give you a chance to do backups. Jerry M
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