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by guitarman
Sat May 28, 2005 8:29 am
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: 3 Motherboards dead in a week
Replies: 7
Views: 5561

Rainbow wrote:Check for bad capacitors. Like this http://cquirke.mvps.org/badcaps.htm
Thanks for the article. I'm going to check for that when I get back to work on Monday. Not that it will make any difference. Either way it looks like I'll need to be ordering 3 new systems.
by guitarman
Fri May 27, 2005 5:29 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: 3 Motherboards dead in a week
Replies: 7
Views: 5561

what aopen mobo? what type of bios (ami, award, ...)? did you try clearing the cmos? I went to another system we have that is identical. It says Aopen on the mother board but when I run Belarc it does not report that. This is what it does report: System Model - VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 Main Ci...
by guitarman
Thu May 26, 2005 8:20 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: 3 Motherboards dead in a week
Replies: 7
Views: 5561

3 Motherboards dead in a week

I'm suspecting a BIOS virus but unsure how to determine that. In one department where I work 3 computers have gone down in a week. None of them will post. I've tried changing memory out and have confirmed that there is nothing wrong with the memory. All three systems are identical. The motherboard i...