- Joined
- Dec 17, 2000
- Location
- Montana, USA
This monday i got up to find my system hard locked. Was fine the night before. Reset button didnt even work. Had to power off, and reboot. Got almost to the logon screen, and hard locked (black screen, reset didnt work). I noticed it was making a funny noise right up to the moment it locked. My first thought was harddrive problem, but then i noticed the 4 capicitors next to the mosfets were slightly buldged, and one has a small stain on the top.
I dropped the overclock (severly underclocked actually) and voltages, and it works mostly ok, not making the capicitor singing noise any more. I was originally going to wait till school got out to try to fix it, but as of yesterday i cant read CDs any more (but funny enough i can still burn cds), and my sound (sound card, not on board) has a slight static in the background, so i think im gona try the repair sooner rather than later.
Anyway, just thought id let people know, see if anyone else had heard of (or experienced) this, and il let you guys know when the repair is done. Wish me luck
I dropped the overclock (severly underclocked actually) and voltages, and it works mostly ok, not making the capicitor singing noise any more. I was originally going to wait till school got out to try to fix it, but as of yesterday i cant read CDs any more (but funny enough i can still burn cds), and my sound (sound card, not on board) has a slight static in the background, so i think im gona try the repair sooner rather than later.
Anyway, just thought id let people know, see if anyone else had heard of (or experienced) this, and il let you guys know when the repair is done. Wish me luck