If you have this motherboard (or a variant) you need to check your caps. My caps leaked and took out the mobo, video card and sound card!
Details:
Mobo---Epox 8K3A+ s/n 020313001189 purchased in 4/02 (not how to decipher the build date}
PSU--Antec 350 Smart Power
Sound Card-SB Audigy
Video- MSI Mx 440 (fortunetly a cheap card compared to what you may have)
Initail symptoms:
-Display was artifacting (random binary symbols being displayed) on boot process only. No symptoms after Windows XP loaded.
-After...