Re: SV25 - Bad caps?

So I opened up the power supply and here's what I see. The manufacturer appears to be "Teabo" or something like that and while most of the caps look fine, one seems to have vomited. There's a whitish-yellow now-hardened material spread between two capacitors and it looks like the rim of covering on the top has melted off or something. There are two other spots that have yellow now-solid goo in the psu. Take a look in the really poor quality (sorry) pictures attached.

Re: SV25 - Bad caps?

I've never opened up a PSU before and I've been told by instructors in the past that it can be pretty dangerous. What should I know before opening it up to check its caps?

Re: SV25 - Bad caps?

Also, did anyone else find that attaching the HS/Fan was an extreme pain with this board?

Re: SV25 - Bad caps?

Hundreds? Wow. Have them in a cluster or something?

I checked the brand, and it looks like they're OST. Would you say it's probably the caps that are causing my problems then? I don't have another computer that uses PC100/133 memory lying around, unfortunately, so I can't test the memory.

Hi, a couple years ago I got a barebones SV25 by shuttle that worked most of the time but would randomly freeze, restart, and wasn't able to install certain OS's without aborting and giving me a really vague error (something like "abnormal error, install failed" really short) and quitting.

Another weird thing: It can't complete a full run of memtest86 (the bootable disc, not the in-OS one). When I hard-restart and try to run it again, it hangs sooner and sooner. That to me would imply a heating issue, since the first time you run it, it's cool and takes a while to heat...