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Computer related questions => PC computer questions, tips and how to's => Topic started by: Mick on July 14, 2009, 08:53:58 AM
After I got my new PC, I decided to investigate the reasons for my old PC randomly freezing up.
On close inspection of the motherboard I noticed that three of the capacitors on the board were bulging at tops. I remember reading a while back about BadCaps, and decided brush up on my soldering skills, and have a go at replacing them. Nicked three capacitors from a old board, and swapped them with the bulging ones. It worked much to my surprise, and is now very stable indeed.
I can now recover all my files from the old system, thank god. ;)
More info about BadCaps here, http://www.badcaps.net/
Well done Mick, its always satisfying when it goes right especially when theres nothing to lose. I tried it with the kids old xbox (loose bit on the motherboard) but i dont think my old soldering iron was up to the job & the board had more than 1 layer so i probably melted something else that i could not see, nothing lost as it was broken anyway.
Simon