About a year and a half ago my comp started requiring many restarts to boot up due to the image on the screen being all out of wack. In my experience this was always a telltale sign of videocard failure. I took my video card (ATI 9700 All in Wonder) out of my machine and tested it in a friends computer. It worked and so I wondered what the culprit could be. I checked my BIOS and realized that my +5 voltage was running way under the threshold (~4.5v) and then I thought it was the power supply. I got an RMA on the power supply and things worked and I thought my troubles had ended.
Then about 2 months ago the video problems started up again. I thought to myself there was no way that I had gotten 2 bad power supplies and opened up my machine to see if I could identify anything wrong. Someone had mentioned to me about capacitors (which before coming to this site I knew next to nothing about) and sure enough there was some corrosion on the top of one of them.
My question is what should I do with these - I read Alex77's post and he seemed to be having the exact same problem as me (although from the looks of it he had it significantly worse.)
Here are the images of whats inside of my case:
As you can see there is only one capacitor that has corrosion:
Apparently Nichicon is a notorious brand for failure?
These capacitors that are in focus are good - the one at the end has a *slight* bludge on the top.
Once again its not really in focus, but there is a slight bludge on top of the rear capacitor.
This one is in here for the heck of it - figures that my computer would go all haywire when I was looking up help for the problem.
My question is should I just flick off the corrosion on the top of that one capacitor, or should I avoid doing that and just leave it the way it is?
Any sort of help as to how I should go about trying to fix this would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Then about 2 months ago the video problems started up again. I thought to myself there was no way that I had gotten 2 bad power supplies and opened up my machine to see if I could identify anything wrong. Someone had mentioned to me about capacitors (which before coming to this site I knew next to nothing about) and sure enough there was some corrosion on the top of one of them.
My question is what should I do with these - I read Alex77's post and he seemed to be having the exact same problem as me (although from the looks of it he had it significantly worse.)
Here are the images of whats inside of my case:
As you can see there is only one capacitor that has corrosion:
Apparently Nichicon is a notorious brand for failure?
These capacitors that are in focus are good - the one at the end has a *slight* bludge on the top.
Once again its not really in focus, but there is a slight bludge on top of the rear capacitor.
This one is in here for the heck of it - figures that my computer would go all haywire when I was looking up help for the problem.
My question is should I just flick off the corrosion on the top of that one capacitor, or should I avoid doing that and just leave it the way it is?
Any sort of help as to how I should go about trying to fix this would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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