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Re: Older PC keeps giving odd errors at POST

Subject: Re: Older PC keeps giving odd errors at POST
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:43:40 +0100
Newsgroups: uk.comp.homebuilt

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:26:57 +0100, GSV Three Minds in a Can
<GSV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Bitstring <ok3s841loeg388els0dhiptuhoqcjduuq1@xxxxxxx>, from the 
>wonderful person Andrew Sayers <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> said
><snip>
>>Ah yes I should hve said originally, Its an Epox 8RDA+ with 1Gb RAM in
>>2x512Mb sticks with an AMD Athlon 2600 processor. The processor will
>>also misreported on occasion as an Athlon 1200, though I think this is
>>linked to when the FSB is misread as 100Mhz instead of 166Mhz
>
>Many of those boards (all?), mine included, had dodgy caps and exhibited 
>all sorts of random faults. Check for capacitor leaks and bulges. Then 
>check again. Nice boards, shame about the quality ...

Mine too. I replaced two whole sets of caps on my 8RDA3+.

It's still going strong. Needs another set of caps though... I
shouldn't have recycled them off similar age boards!

        Cheers - Jaimie
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