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Computer shuts down

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I have dual celeron 366 everything was working fine. I got a wireless nic and installed it. It started to freeze up. Figured it was driver conflicts, reformated HDD and reinstalled XP pro. Now I start it up and it will just shut down after a short period of time. Don't know what it causing it.
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Have you since tried pulling the NIC? How long does the power stay on for?
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I have tried taking it out. I have tried taking pretty much all the hardware excluding the video card and disconnecting all the drives. The running time varries. The more you try to run it the faster it will shut down. It acting like the processors are overheating and it shuts down. But as far as i'm aware they aren't. I also thought that it might me a conflict with XP but i tried to run the reinstall program and it shuts down during that also.
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I have tried taking it out. I have tried taking pretty much all the hardware excluding the video card and disconnecting all the drives. The running time varries. The more you try to run it the faster it will shut down. It acting like the processors are overheating and it shuts down. But as far as i'm aware they aren't. I also thought that it might me a conflict with XP but i tried to run the reinstall program and it shuts down during that also.
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I have tried taking it out. I have tried taking pretty much all the hardware excluding the video card and disconnecting all the drives. The running time varries. The more you try to run it the faster it will shut down. It acting like the processors are overheating and it shuts down. But as far as i'm aware they aren't. I also thought that it might me a conflict with XP but i tried to run the reinstall program and it shuts down during that also. Also when it shuts down, i have to pull the power cord for about 10 sec before i can try to restart the computer
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Sorry about the extra messages. When i was pressing submit it wasn't doing anything
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jdfisher wrote:I have tried taking it out. I have tried taking pretty much all the hardware excluding the video card and disconnecting all the drives. The running time varries. The more you try to run it the faster it will shut down. It acting like the processors are overheating and it shuts down. But as far as i'm aware they aren't. I also thought that it might me a conflict with XP but i tried to run the reinstall program and it shuts down during that also.
You could have one or more voltage regulator capacitor(s) failing.
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Which means i have to do what?
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jdfisher wrote:Which means i have to do what?
If you have bad or failing capacitors, they need to be replaced. There are several threads about this problem. It is not specific to the BP6 mainboard.
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Is there anyway that i can figure it out for myself? Or do i need to have it looked at by a professional?
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Look closly at the caps. Especially any Jackson brand. See if they are bulging at the top or leaking.
There are *almost* no bad BP6s. There are mostly bad caps.

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Bulging caps:

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EDIT: Thanks to the respected www.motherboardrepair.com for the pictures. Hope it's OK to use them without permission.
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I located two that are blown. How hard are they to find replacments for? And where can i find replacments?
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jdfisher,
Check out the links in this link.
http://www.bp6.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=898&highlight=

Xman,
good pics.
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davd_bob wrote:Xman,
good pics.
I hold up my hands. I should have credited the excellent www.motherboardrepair.com for the great pics.

(But I did host them myself to avoid stealing his bandwidth. ;) )

As well as offering advice and pictures, www.motherboardrepair.com will also fix your boards via return post.
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Hosting them with your own Member webspace no less :) So cheers again!
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OK!
OK!

Where do i send the MO?
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Post by Dave Rave »

those 'blown' caps in the piccy, maybe indicative.
but mine are mostly worse than that and still working fine.

when the caps are out of align and lifiting off of the board, and the caps are little pyramids, and the board has stopped working, then i'd replace them.

if the board works, leave 'em
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