Hi everyone
A great deal of good information on this site. Has anyone had experience with the failure rate of the Abit VT6X4?
After system freezes using some graphics programs and going through all the usual procedures to locate software and/or driver problems, uninstalling/reinstalling, w2k repair, and more, the next step was the hardware. Memtest shows lots of errors on tests 5 and 8, nothing on the others. I happens with all modules, alone or together. The error shows up when sending either ffffff7f or fffffff7, and getting ffffffff back. I dont play games on this machine very much, except for tying out simcity4 for awhile. But I do alot of graphics work and 3D rendering.
A kind soul suggested checking out the motherboard capacitors and sent a picture of what to look for. Sure enough one of them was bulging at the top, like in the picture. But no leakage. The offending part (if this IS the whole problem) is black with a gold stripe.
The bad part is listed as EC19. Anyone know what this one is used for? Could this one part be the problem? Of course the board is already quite old by todays standards... around 5 years I think.
Thansks :roll:
A great deal of good information on this site. Has anyone had experience with the failure rate of the Abit VT6X4?
After system freezes using some graphics programs and going through all the usual procedures to locate software and/or driver problems, uninstalling/reinstalling, w2k repair, and more, the next step was the hardware. Memtest shows lots of errors on tests 5 and 8, nothing on the others. I happens with all modules, alone or together. The error shows up when sending either ffffff7f or fffffff7, and getting ffffffff back. I dont play games on this machine very much, except for tying out simcity4 for awhile. But I do alot of graphics work and 3D rendering.
A kind soul suggested checking out the motherboard capacitors and sent a picture of what to look for. Sure enough one of them was bulging at the top, like in the picture. But no leakage. The offending part (if this IS the whole problem) is black with a gold stripe.
The bad part is listed as EC19. Anyone know what this one is used for? Could this one part be the problem? Of course the board is already quite old by todays standards... around 5 years I think.
Thansks :roll:
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