On Thursday 16 September 2004 12:48 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
How is that the system's fault? I have had cpu fans fail on an Athlon based board, and it caused the capacitors on the motherboard to fail,
I've had several capacitors fail on MoBos with NO failure of cpu fans. I just don't think those two things are related. I had many machines with the same line of motherboards where the caps would burst with any P3 over 500mhz, but the same board running slower cpus would last forever. Fans were never an issue, and they ran right thru the failure. I chock it up to undersized/under rated parts, and it evenutally spelled the doom of that mobo manufacturer as the return rate jumped out of sight, and the went belly up. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen