Hi all,
I have an Intel D865PERL motherboard that only sees light (office) use, without overclocking, gaming or anything.
I've recently noticed that one of the caps is bulging but hasn't shifted from 90° or anything. It's just got a bulgy top.
Does that mean I have a bad capacitor?
I'm asking bacause right after I first installed Windows in it the computer was very slow and hung all the time (no crashes or BSoD though). I proceeded to install all the drivers and everything was fine again, so I blamed it on the large SATA HDD (I installed WinXP SP1 which I was told didn't handle SATA all too well) and the amount of system tray utilities that needed to be loaded.
I also installed SuSE Linux 9.3 and later 10.0 - the computer was never even slow running linux, which reinforced my initial belief in poor driver support in Windows (it was the original XP - not even SP1 - so I need install SP2 later).
But now I'm reading about bad capacitors on Slashdot and elsewhere, and there's that bulgy cap, and Intel mentions D865PERL as one of the affected MoBos... (my brother who's into IT says it's "slightly" bulgy and that I shouldn't worry, but it looks just like the bulgy caps in badcaps.net "bad" pictures)
I'll post a photo as soon as I get home but in the meantime... Does bulge equal bad??
I have an Intel D865PERL motherboard that only sees light (office) use, without overclocking, gaming or anything.
I've recently noticed that one of the caps is bulging but hasn't shifted from 90° or anything. It's just got a bulgy top.
Does that mean I have a bad capacitor?
I'm asking bacause right after I first installed Windows in it the computer was very slow and hung all the time (no crashes or BSoD though). I proceeded to install all the drivers and everything was fine again, so I blamed it on the large SATA HDD (I installed WinXP SP1 which I was told didn't handle SATA all too well) and the amount of system tray utilities that needed to be loaded.
I also installed SuSE Linux 9.3 and later 10.0 - the computer was never even slow running linux, which reinforced my initial belief in poor driver support in Windows (it was the original XP - not even SP1 - so I need install SP2 later).
But now I'm reading about bad capacitors on Slashdot and elsewhere, and there's that bulgy cap, and Intel mentions D865PERL as one of the affected MoBos... (my brother who's into IT says it's "slightly" bulgy and that I shouldn't worry, but it looks just like the bulgy caps in badcaps.net "bad" pictures)
I'll post a photo as soon as I get home but in the meantime... Does bulge equal bad??
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