Hey,

>Still in use today, Soyo has like a 100% cheapest parts available policy.

You mean they're still using those faulty caps?? That's frightening!


>How long have you had the motherboard?

Bought the board in December 2001 and it has been in use since. Originally used Win 98se and Internet Exploder and would get frequent crashes, you know, that lovely blue screen thing. Changed to XP Pro and Mozilla Firebird and that ran fine 'till I started geting the boot failures.

As a side note, my brother has an identical...

Greetings,

After numerous boot failures I finally checked the caps on the mobo and noticed than many had swelling and brown crust from leaking(wendell caps). I replaced all the caps that were 1000uf or larger. Also noticed that two caps in the power supply were leaking and replaced those.

Now the computer boots(usually) but the IDE seems to be funky. With one hard drive and two CD player/writers attached cottectly it will somtimes boot and show one or none of the CD players.

So I think I'm done playing with it. I am wondering if there are any known,...