Re: Gateway Performance 1500CS

OK Opened PSU, other than a bit dusty looked great for age.
No Caps with Blow Out swelling etc. no signs of overheating.
Hooken PSU back to mainboard and Drives and tried to boot MEMTEST from Floppy.
Memtest started to load and system rebooted.
This time memtest loaded and began to run, Error counter showed lots of errors then system froze. tried to reboot and now no video and no post.
If I remove RAM it beeps but that is all.
Will power off and let it sit over night and try again in am and see how it beha...

Re: Gateway Performance 1500CS

I did not Open PSU, it tested good with New Digital PSU Tester.
System will set in CMOS Setup Screen Forever, but if I try to boot to Windows XP it gets to Splash screen Flashes a Blue Screen really fast and reboots. In Checkit if I run basic tests it will run for Days. If I try and do Heavy Duty Memory or HD tests it either freezes up (Most Times) or Reboots (Sometimes).
It seems like it is getting worse, initailly had bad or missing file errors in C:\windows\system32...blah...blah...blah.
Have tested numerous ways and if testing...

I have a system on Bench Gateway ATXSTF MNT Performance 1500CS with MFG Date of 8/29/01. It shows all the signs of Capacitor Plague, but no physical Signs. Also the Caps appear different then Most Commonly Seen.
Even Smaller Diameter and Shorter. Main Board Appears to be MIC.
Other Identifing marks E210882.
Also Bar Code Label ABGB13305943 AA A49507-904
Another Label Possibly S/N: 4000762
Caps are Purple in color, about 6mm in diameter instead of 8mm and about 10mm Tall. Have not removed MB from system yet, so I cannot makeout markings. ON the Negetive Stripe...