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Onlyone - Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:27 pm
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1. My computer would spontaneously restart.

2. I replaced the PS thinking that was the problem.

3. Now it is back doing it again.

Im thinking a capacitor has gone bad on the board. Any other opinions?

Mine GO BOOM - Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:33 pm
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Does any caps on the board look like anything listed on this site?

SuSE - Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:17 pm
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http://www.halfdone.com/Personal/Job/Pictures/ScrewUps/Burning_and_Exploding/
I love that url

Blindmonkey21 - Mon Nov 22, 2004 6:54 pm
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ROFL! I wonder if he actually burned all of that stuff just to make that site lol. Pretty sweet though Suse.

Oh yeah. My comp also spontaneously restarts whenever I play some full screen game (Warcraft 3 I forget the others) Any ideas? Just when playing those games.

Sercit - Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:02 pm
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Some people have way too much time and money on their hands.

SuSE - Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:16 pm
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his job is fixing computers, it's not like he just buys lots of computers and fries them then takes pictures

Sercit - Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:23 pm
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Oh. I didn't see that, SuSE, I thought that - was - what he was doing. Fah, long day.

SuSE - Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:28 pm
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that'd be more fun, though, obviously

Blindmonkey21 - Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:53 pm
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I thought he just amassed a pile of destroyed equipment and took pictures of it.

pokemon 2001 - Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:03 am
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lol looks like a battery melting with acid after aging

hehe i just peel that frozen icy acid and it works perfect!

50% Packetloss - Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:09 am
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Take a look in your comp and if it looks like this,

Edit: Need to find another person to leach from
Tricky Russians, here is the link
http://www.crazyrussian.com/?itemid=392

Then you are in big trouble.

pokemon 2001 - Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:11 am
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lols and heyy u flamin against russians

pokemon 2001 - Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:17 am
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http://www.crazyrussian.com/01/diods/

lol they got strippers to!

Cyan~Fire - Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:35 am
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50% wrote:

Take a look in your comp and if it looks like this, [...] Then you are in big trouble.

... I think that if you ever see that, you're in big trouble.

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:54 pm
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50% Packetloss wrote:

Take a look in your comp and if it looks like this,

http://www.crazyrussian.com/01/diods/01.jpg

Then you are in big trouble.

I know that guy who hosts that file. Should really stop leeching bandwidth from others.

Solo Ace - Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:05 pm
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I'm not sure but, shouldn't people who don't want people to link to their images from other pages prevent this from happening by disabling it (like you did, I think?

) using a .htaccess file/modifying the server's settings?

Dr Brain - Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:06 pm
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No. Just because people don't lock their doors doesn't justify breaking and entering.

Solo Ace - Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:24 pm
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How is it "breaking"?
"Hacking" into the webserver would be breaking (and entering), but uhm, if you put a file on the web it can be downloaded by almost everyone on the web.
The image was put online to be seen, if the person who put it there doesn't want others to use it on their pages I think he/she should close some curtains.

I wouldn't like it if people started to link to images on my server (if I would run any), and I didn't say/think it was right to use others' bandwidth for it.

Cyan~Fire - Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:01 am
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Jeez Solo! It's called an analogy!

Solo Ace - Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:39 pm
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????????

Solo Ace - Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:57 am
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I never thought it'd happen to me, but I have a leaky capacitor on a motherboard here.
Some black crap poored down on the motherboard from the bottom of a capacitor, the top also looks like the one with the "Bulging Top".

I think this is the cause for the problem I was having with the computer.
It wouldn't access any HDD for longer than a few seconds.
After an attempt to write to or read from it, the system would freeze with rebooting as only way out.

What could cause these cap. leaks? It has been running in a average/cold (16C) environment and has only been used for almost 3 months.

Ah well, I'm swapping the board now.

Oh and Cyan, it was a bad analogy.

Cyan~Fire - Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:46 pm
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What was the brand? Buy an ASUS to replace, they rock.

Mine GO BOOM - Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:07 pm
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Solo Ace wrote:

What could cause these cap. leaks?

It was the plague.

Solo Ace - Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:50 pm
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I see. Nice thing to know. The computers I buy/select always have a little more expensive equipment.
This one was a motherboard I still had somewhere in a box which I used to make a computer from with some other remaining parts. It actually got a nice little box, it's even better now with the new motherboard.

I got an Asus from the tech service here, for free.