Re: Asrock GE PRO-M2 (S478)

thanks for the advice with the cmos,
it did infact update the bios sucessfully, I must have skipped some steps reading the flashing instructions.

for the other capacitors, I'll just leave them since shes already got her computer back

Note: MBM5 is showing a -12 voltage of -14.9v and a -5 voltage of -7v
either MBM is showing the wrong voltage, or the power supply is faulty

I can just use a digital multimeter to double check this right? What wires would I check? Because those are way out of range,...

My gf's sister asks me to check out her computer because it keeps freezing. So I head over and 90% of the time it wont post, the other 10% of the time it works fine but freezes under heavy load. So I pull off the case cover not even knowing about the capacitor conspiracy and I see a blown cap, then another, and another. 9 in total (7 blown, 2 buldging). I went home and google'd the problem and found this website. I couldnt believe that it would boot up 10% of the time with 9 bad caps.

Anyways the caps are green Taicon 1000uF 6.3v and there are 3 or 4 good ones still in there (well...