Re: Is this a symptom of possible bad caps?

Sorry about the pics guys I took them at the last minute before hopping on a plane didn't have time to take the motherboard out of the case. I'll try to get better pics when I come back. My impression from observing them in person is that they might be slightly bulging but I'm no expert and don't know what's normal and what is not. Certainly they're not blulging as bad as some of the pictures on this forum.

Re: Is this a symptom of possible bad caps?

Here are some pictures. Sorry they're not so great but I didn't have time to take the motherboard out of the case and take better ones. Some of the caps say Rubycon and others say Sanyo








Let me know if you need better pictures.

I've been having some very strange problems with a Tyan S5396 motherboard. When I hit the power button the CPU fans, case fans, and GPU fan spin but the board does not POST. Instead, it just sits there with the fans spinning. Sometimes if I power it off from that state by holding down the power button for a while then hit the power button again it will startup and POST. After a successful POST everything is fine. This is my third Tyan board with this kind of problem.

I have:

1. Run with only one stick of RAM. Swapped the RAM. No RAM (Get the right beep code)
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