On 20/10/14 18:57, Felix Miata wrote:
965 might be a little new for the following, but you never know, especially WRT power supplies, and compact form factor cases that run the internals hot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
It's funny, I only read up on that for the first time a short while ago, before attempting to use this donated system. As far as I could see, there weren't any obviously blown capacitors on the mainboard and the timescales mentioned didn't quite seem to match this system's generation. It's in a standard midi tower case. A very bog standard home PC by all accounts. I've known all sorts of failed components over the years on my systems, but this intrigues me because normally it results in a system that doesn't switch on at all, a blank screen, or dodgy goings on once booted, whereas this comes on and goes off again shortly after. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org