Hello, On Tue, 09 Mar 2010, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On 03/09/2010 02:38 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/03/09 08:24 (GMT+0100) Koenraad Lelong composed:
There are no bulging or leaking capacitors on the mother-board or the video-card.
What about the power supply? They tend to use cheaper caps than motherboards, so more likely the bulging/leaking in them.
P.S I've never encountered or heard of bulging/leaking cap encounters on video cards.
I have a ~3yr old EVGA nVidia 7600GS with almost all caps bulging and/or leaking lying around here. It was still working when I switched it for a new MSI 8400GS (a couple of months ago) in the "new" PC.
Yep......but only once. It was on a Matrox of "yesteryear."
Old box: $ lspci | grep VGA 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 1064SG [Mystique] (rev 02) Doesn't even have a cooler, just the naked Chip (4 MB version though): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MatroxMystique2MBcard.jpg http://www.yjfy.com/images/oldhard/video/1064.jpg Caps? *scratches head* ;) -dnh -- The only languages that can comfortably be written with the repertoire of US-ASCII happen to be Latin, Swahili, Hawaiian and American English without most typographic frills. It is rumoured that there are more languages in the world. -- Roman Czyborra -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org