Re: Newby here, Intel D865 board needs several pushes of the power button to boot

Well the voltage readings bouncing around seems to be a spurious effect arising from an interaction between "speedfan" and the "Intel Active Monitor".
So hopefully with the replacement mobo I now have a stable system.
Thanks for the tips guys.

Re: Newby here, Intel D865 board needs several pushes of the power button to boot

Thanks all,

Yes it appears to be bulging/bad caps on the mobo, specifically only the 5 longer ones beside the CPU socket:
C3C3
C2C2
C2C4
C1C2
C1C3
Intermittent starting and hang ups, now replaced mobo with another of the same.
Would a bad Power Supply have caused these caps to fail? One thing I notice having just started using the Intel Active Monitor is that some of the voltages seem to bounce around a bit (momentarily). Particularly the +3.3V...

Hi all,

I feel a complete novice in this present company, although I'm an experienced tinkerer in some other areas (high quality bicycles, some car stuff). I have also had some success repairing water damaged cell phones.

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The query is, I've assembled a PC based on an Intel D865PERL from 2003 with a P4 2.8GHz, and it's going great. But to boot it up it...