"Alasdair Campbell" wrote in message
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"Clint Sharp" wrote in message
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In message , Alasdair
Campbell writes
Hi all,

I have two identical Intel D845GLAD main boards, 2 CPUs, one stick of
working RAM and a reliable PSU. Neither board will post & no beep codes
whatsoever, board A at least switches on and off (Fans kick in), Board B
just sits there like a dead duck.

When CPU B is in Board A, the fans die after 10 seconds; with CPU A the
board sits on happily for hours. Checked thermal paste and chip seating.
As
I have no access to a working Intel main board or CPU what can I
ascertain
from the difference in behaviour of the processors?
Umm, they're both faulty but in different ways?

Absolutely nothing is my favoured guess at the moment but glad to be
corrected...
Might be worth buying a cheap POST card from eBay, could be BIOS
corruption/bad flash on the semi working one..

The semi working board died after a memory upgrade attempt by a client's
son. As I've never had aboard die on me, I can't see how he would have
mangaed to kill it and presumed it was BIOS corruption, however the
emergency bios update system isn't working.

I think I'll just need to say goodbye to it/ Hate throwing things out
however..

The caps do NOT have to BURST or OOZE to be bad. The 2002 - 2005 era was
VERY BAD for almost all manufacturers (motherboards, switch power supplies,
car audio, iPods, hard drives, test equipment).

Abit replaces the bad boards -- I would talk to you local Intel regional
representative (or talk to a certified dealer -- who can for you)

Here is the WEB SITE (to get educated)
http://www.badcaps.net/

http://www.badcaps.net/ident/

Covered in IEEE Spectrum in 2002 , Cnet.com and most journals during that
period.
EVEN WIKI has an article about the plaque !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

http://news.com.com/PCs+plagued+by+b...3-5942647.html

http://news.com.com/When+good+capaci...3-5940438.html

http://cquirke.mvps.org/badcaps.htm

http://cquirke.mvps.org/csxcaps.htm

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=434818

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-623...sageID=1882093

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7591_102...geID=238582 1