Sup people from Afterdawn, I usually made this thread to include the horror of blown capacitors. What is a capacitor and what does it do? A capacitor is an electronic component used in almost all electronic circuits from portable phones to car electronics. A capacitor stores and maintains (or resists change) to voltage levels and fluctuations. Capacitors are also used in timing and filtering circuits.From(www.auroracomputer.ca/ bad_capacitors.htm) The symptoms are PC rebooting by itself, not enough performance running throughout the PC itself. One example would be running a video game and once it starts it reboots leaving your head with a question mark. My PC started doing this once I hooked it up with many drives like a DVD burner and adding a 200 gig hard drive and long overdue hours of work on the PC. Then I felt like playing a game like Halo or Dungeon Siege 2 and once I started playing it, the PC reboots and well "curses." This is another example of one getting ready to blow. This represents all three ways of blown cases. Now This is what I learned so far about capacitors Always Have A Good Power Supply! "Be free to post your answers I might be wrong but from what I seen I really believe it was my power supply that did the damage."
wasn't your psu that did that as it happens on with good psu's too. i've fixed a fair number of boards & psu's with blown caps with most repairs working still.
I figured out that my power supply was making a weird sound. So I opened the PC to figure out where the noise came from as i thought it was the hard drive. But it was not the hard drive it was the psu making a wierd clicking noise and I read the company and it was a 300w Sparkle Power Intl LTD(cheap power supply). I had the same problem with the same company as it messed up my other mobo with the blown capacitors. Though blown capacitors is not by all means a good sign the computer still works but the performance decreases.
