[dba-Tech] Operating System not found

Bryan Carbonnell carbonnb at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 15:03:00 CDT 2007


On 10/15/07, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> It seems that you have been hit with the case of the gibbled capacitors. A
> Korean company produced these faulty units for about 6 months until it was
> discovered there was an error in the processing. By that time it was too
> late and all computer mother designers had been using their capacitors.
> There are hundreds of thousnads of motherboards out there that fail because
> of this and it is all just 'buyer beware'.
>
> If you are have and are good with a soldering gun and can read the capacitor
> code the whole fix can be accomplished for about 30 bucks and 1 hours work.
> A good friend and hardware guy replaced all the capacitors on one of my
> boards. (I only have a cheap gun and no skill with that type of work...)

No skill (haven't soldered anything in about 25 years)
No iron
No MoBo anymore. There is an electronics recycling drop off today and
tomorrow here at work, so I brought it in for them to take it 3 blocks
from my house for recycling :)

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Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well
preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out,
shouting "What a great ride!"



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