Hello all,
I originally bought a Biostar Geforce 6100 M9 in October 2006 and a single-core CPU.
About a year later, I upgraded the CPU to a dual-core AMD64 X2.
The motherboard would not operate properly with the new CPU, there were issues with
powering off/on.
Biostar replaced it for me in October 2007. It's been working fine, quite a bit of use,
using the onboard video and sound - nothing to stress the system components.
Yet after only 22 months the capacitors that are lined up against the cpu socket
(5 of them) are failing. 2 are bulging, and 1 has some brown crap coming out the top.
I'm amazed the PC is still working.
Were there some bad capacitors floating around 2 years ago?
This seems an awfully short life.
I originally bought a Biostar Geforce 6100 M9 in October 2006 and a single-core CPU.
About a year later, I upgraded the CPU to a dual-core AMD64 X2.
The motherboard would not operate properly with the new CPU, there were issues with
powering off/on.
Biostar replaced it for me in October 2007. It's been working fine, quite a bit of use,
using the onboard video and sound - nothing to stress the system components.
Yet after only 22 months the capacitors that are lined up against the cpu socket
(5 of them) are failing. 2 are bulging, and 1 has some brown crap coming out the top.
I'm amazed the PC is still working.
Were there some bad capacitors floating around 2 years ago?
This seems an awfully short life.