Hi, i recently acquired an old pc from a friend and he was telling me that sometimes the screen turned off randomly, so when i got it i changed the power supply to one that i already had, put different ram, a new gfx card and a clean hard drive with windows XP. Luckily i didnt have to purchase any of this as i already had these spare components.
HOWEVER the pc still switches off the monitor randomly and goes into a freeze. I cant press num-lock, ctrl-alt-del or anything and the computer is stuck running with no output to the monitor. Sometimes it takes 5 mins for this to occur but sometimes it won't happen at all. I can't even turn it off from the power switch on the pc when it does happen, i have to turn it off from the power-point!! And sometimes the pc doesnt even load the BIOS when i turn on my pc again. Btw i am using a different monitor to the one my friend had.
Then i came across this site and was a little intrigued. I am pretty sure that i have badcaps but take a look at these pics and tell me what you think...is it definitely badcaps??
All that orange stuff is only coming out of the capcitors around the CPU. Luckily i didnt purchase any upgrades for the PC.
SO all i wanna know is it definitely bad capacitors causing these problems???
Thanks
HOWEVER the pc still switches off the monitor randomly and goes into a freeze. I cant press num-lock, ctrl-alt-del or anything and the computer is stuck running with no output to the monitor. Sometimes it takes 5 mins for this to occur but sometimes it won't happen at all. I can't even turn it off from the power switch on the pc when it does happen, i have to turn it off from the power-point!! And sometimes the pc doesnt even load the BIOS when i turn on my pc again. Btw i am using a different monitor to the one my friend had.
Then i came across this site and was a little intrigued. I am pretty sure that i have badcaps but take a look at these pics and tell me what you think...is it definitely badcaps??
All that orange stuff is only coming out of the capcitors around the CPU. Luckily i didnt purchase any upgrades for the PC.
SO all i wanna know is it definitely bad capacitors causing these problems???
Thanks
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
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