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Ricki from trailerparkboys

Jan 1, 1970
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I have an ECS Elitegroup motherboard, pentium 4 sometimes boots,and
sometimes just a black screen, If boot fails and I just leave it plugged in
for a while it sometimes boots than crashes after a few minutes. anyone know
what causes this?
 
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Big Brother

Jan 1, 1970
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Ricki said:
I have an ECS Elitegroup motherboard, pentium 4 sometimes boots,and
sometimes just a black screen, If boot fails and I just leave it plugged in
for a while it sometimes boots than crashes after a few minutes. anyone know
what causes this?

Might be bad/leaky caps on the motherboard..

I had this guy fix my epox board about 3 months ago for the same problem

It works great..http://www.motherboardrepair.com/index.php?sec=home
 
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Ricki from trailerparkboys

Jan 1, 1970
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All the caps look fine (no leaking ,no bulges) could they still be bad?
 
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Carl Jenkins

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi Ricki,

If the board is still under warranty I would
just RMA it. If the replacement works fine then
problem solved. If not then it's time to ask
around here for some ideas.

Carl
 
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mistermaniac

Jan 1, 1970
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Ricki said:
I have an ECS Elitegroup motherboard, pentium 4 sometimes boots,and
sometimes just a black screen, If boot fails and I just leave i
plugged in
for a while it sometimes boots than crashes after a few minutes. anyon
know
what causes this?

Could be a faulty PSU
 
hi Ricki

from experience, some boards have that kind of problem due to faulty
bios issues/memory problems and the like. I would suggest that you try
to do a good cleaning of the board along with the memory and ram. I
would also suggest that you try flashing the bios to a more recent
version so that it will eliminate buggy irq handling problems. :)

goodluck
 
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crazy frog

Jan 1, 1970
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sometimes you can weed out the faulty caps
by looking in where things get hot around
these caps such as voltage reg's on your
motherboard.
i replaced 2 caps in a p2-266 the other day
2 1000uf 10 volt neer the voltage reg's, due to
heat from them, the caps were leaky and upsetting
the voltage rails, the system will not boot.
 
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James Sweet

Jan 1, 1970
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crazy frog said:
sometimes you can weed out the faulty caps
by looking in where things get hot around
these caps such as voltage reg's on your
motherboard.
i replaced 2 caps in a p2-266 the other day
2 1000uf 10 volt neer the voltage reg's, due to
heat from them, the caps were leaky and upsetting
the voltage rails, the system will not boot.

Usually they're bulging too, there was a large batch of capacitors made with
defective electrolyte that found their way into all sorts of things for a
few years there, seems to be all over with now though.
 
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