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Most motherboard related failures are due to the On-board regulated supplies and component failure within
those circuits.I have seen similar capacitor failures on almost every brand and model of motherboard
manufactured between 1998 and 2004.

Most common symptoms of capacitor failure:


1. Failure to boot.
2. Must attempt booting several times before machine will start.
3. Instability, especially when graphics are complex.
4. Machine boots with a pre-Coppermine Celeron but will not boot with a PIII Coppermine.
5. Bad odor wafts about the room and this time it wasn't you or the dog.
6. Bios health alarm (hi-low siren) at boot but PC health screen shows no reason for the alarm.
7. Fans spin up, power indicator lights up and nothing else happens.

This is a list of only some of the brands that have shown capacitor
failures in large numbers:
1. Abit
2. A-Open
3. ECS
4. EPOX
5. Gateway
6. Hewlett Packard
7. Intel
8. MSI
9. Shuttle
10. Soyo
11. Tyan
12. Via

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