EP-8K3A
KT333 with VT8233A AGPset/266MHz FSB/3 DIMM with DDR333/1 AGP-4X/6 PCI/USB1.1/ATA-133/6CH Audio/ATX
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A puny system compared by today's standards admittedly, but nevertheless this system until now has ran 24/7 since 2003. almost faultless apart from the usual maintence, a format here a tune up and a upgrade there to keep things running smooth, but...
System summary:- for those that really care
Windows 98se first boot 40gig hdd split into 2 partitions
Windows Xp pro sp2 custom config 120gig hdd split 3 partitions
Latest via drivers /bios update available
Antec 450 psu
EP-8K3AE mainboard
1GB Epox System PC2700 ddr333 non eec dimms ( 2 x 512mb )
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
Ati Radeon 9800 pro
Pioneer cd-rom
Pioneer dvd-/+rw
ad-on firewire pci card
ad-on hardwall firewall
Creative sound blaster audigy 1 Card
3 fans
Use pestpatrol
Nod32
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Upon coming home from work I found my desktop had shutdown, strange I thought to myself as I was used to the sound of the pc whirring away, especially as last weekend I had stripped it out to the case for it's annual clean out. ( bareboned and rebuilt ) cleaned the fans, remounted the heatsink with new artic silver, dust bust. Put it all back together as usual and hey presto I was up and running again all week, checked for viruses and spy/malware, everything was clean.
Now this problem has started occurring where by my pc shuts down even at boot, my first thought was a Trojan or virus. So I went through the mini-dump with a fine tooth comb, and the registry runtime's /ini nothing there.
An error of win32k.sys followed by the bsod and a 0x50 page fault, which is usualy referenced towards being a memory or cache fault, however I have tested and retested my memory in different pc's using memtest86 running for near enough 2 days without faults occurring, my grafix card has been tested too same result, I've used hirens boot tools to stress test most of the components on my pc, I did find that my second hard was failing and had bad sectors (1798) quite a few..! I've ran the latest Maxtor tools on this to determine that it needs replacing. And this has been done.
Now I fine it is not possible to format the new drive as I cannot even reach the post screen, I switch on wait a while and then a thin half a centremetre line in blue appears at the bottoms of the screen. sometimes it will boot into the first os win98se for a shortime then just shutdown. or bsod and freeze
I have tried resetting the bios, resetting and reseating the other cards, checked the cables and tested the psu and cpu in alternative pc's. My fears were realised when I opened the case and took some time to look for possible hardware faults, I found some of the capacitors had started to fail especially around the cpu heatsink edge, The tops were bulging and leaking .. and brown sludge like liquid on the board at the rear of the cpu heatsink, 2 of the capacitors had tilted to one side and another similarly defective near the memory slots, others I noted were bulging in a way unbecoming to there natural state. This I later learned after doing some research was more than likely the reason for all the problems I'd been having.
I've written to epox nl in the hope of getting in repaired or replaced, however this is taking forever so after reading through some of the mail here I thought I would ask about re-capping myself.
What caps should I buy for this board what are the ideal make to go for? any help would be appreciated.
KT333 with VT8233A AGPset/266MHz FSB/3 DIMM with DDR333/1 AGP-4X/6 PCI/USB1.1/ATA-133/6CH Audio/ATX
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A puny system compared by today's standards admittedly, but nevertheless this system until now has ran 24/7 since 2003. almost faultless apart from the usual maintence, a format here a tune up and a upgrade there to keep things running smooth, but...
System summary:- for those that really care
Windows 98se first boot 40gig hdd split into 2 partitions
Windows Xp pro sp2 custom config 120gig hdd split 3 partitions
Latest via drivers /bios update available
Antec 450 psu
EP-8K3AE mainboard
1GB Epox System PC2700 ddr333 non eec dimms ( 2 x 512mb )
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
Ati Radeon 9800 pro
Pioneer cd-rom
Pioneer dvd-/+rw
ad-on firewire pci card
ad-on hardwall firewall
Creative sound blaster audigy 1 Card
3 fans
Use pestpatrol
Nod32
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Upon coming home from work I found my desktop had shutdown, strange I thought to myself as I was used to the sound of the pc whirring away, especially as last weekend I had stripped it out to the case for it's annual clean out. ( bareboned and rebuilt ) cleaned the fans, remounted the heatsink with new artic silver, dust bust. Put it all back together as usual and hey presto I was up and running again all week, checked for viruses and spy/malware, everything was clean.
Now this problem has started occurring where by my pc shuts down even at boot, my first thought was a Trojan or virus. So I went through the mini-dump with a fine tooth comb, and the registry runtime's /ini nothing there.
An error of win32k.sys followed by the bsod and a 0x50 page fault, which is usualy referenced towards being a memory or cache fault, however I have tested and retested my memory in different pc's using memtest86 running for near enough 2 days without faults occurring, my grafix card has been tested too same result, I've used hirens boot tools to stress test most of the components on my pc, I did find that my second hard was failing and had bad sectors (1798) quite a few..! I've ran the latest Maxtor tools on this to determine that it needs replacing. And this has been done.
Now I fine it is not possible to format the new drive as I cannot even reach the post screen, I switch on wait a while and then a thin half a centremetre line in blue appears at the bottoms of the screen. sometimes it will boot into the first os win98se for a shortime then just shutdown. or bsod and freeze
I have tried resetting the bios, resetting and reseating the other cards, checked the cables and tested the psu and cpu in alternative pc's. My fears were realised when I opened the case and took some time to look for possible hardware faults, I found some of the capacitors had started to fail especially around the cpu heatsink edge, The tops were bulging and leaking .. and brown sludge like liquid on the board at the rear of the cpu heatsink, 2 of the capacitors had tilted to one side and another similarly defective near the memory slots, others I noted were bulging in a way unbecoming to there natural state. This I later learned after doing some research was more than likely the reason for all the problems I'd been having.
I've written to epox nl in the hope of getting in repaired or replaced, however this is taking forever so after reading through some of the mail here I thought I would ask about re-capping myself.
What caps should I buy for this board what are the ideal make to go for? any help would be appreciated.
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