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?
Motherboard boot
Aug 31, 2005
7 Replies
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..
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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
"Ricki from trailerparkboys" wrote:
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Could be a faulty PSU.
mistermaniac
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
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.in
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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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