Have had this server humming away faithfully for the better part of 5 years now. Had to bring her home from the data center recently after a sudden failure that could not be easily fixed.
It will power up but will not post. No vid signal according to the monitor. Power light comes on and hard drives show activity. Also for some reason it will not power off anymore using the power button, have to kill the psu. PSU tests good. Removed all extras (hard drives, vid card, memory) but still no post or beeps.
I looked it over and quickly noticed some obviously bulging caps. There are two rows of six caps, one row right next to each cpu. Before becoming a member of this fine site I would never have noticed them.
So, could these caps, assuming they are bad, be the culprit here?
It will power up but will not post. No vid signal according to the monitor. Power light comes on and hard drives show activity. Also for some reason it will not power off anymore using the power button, have to kill the psu. PSU tests good. Removed all extras (hard drives, vid card, memory) but still no post or beeps.
I looked it over and quickly noticed some obviously bulging caps. There are two rows of six caps, one row right next to each cpu. Before becoming a member of this fine site I would never have noticed them.
So, could these caps, assuming they are bad, be the culprit here?
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