I'm putting together a PC for a friend. Everything has gone well except for the freezes. The monitor goes black, but the monitor power light is still on (and not flashing) as well as the computer. Keyboard lights are frozen. Have to reboot machine.
Thing is, the freezes only seem to be happening when copying a large .iso from my other computer through my network. Full test of 3dmark ran fine. Downloaded various programs and drivers from the internet that have installed fine. CPU does run a little hot with stock cooler but copying a file shouldn't generate nearly as much heat a 3Dmark test.
Low and behold looking in the case, I found a bulging capacitor directly behind the ethernet ports:
Even though the pix might not show it, it seems to be pretty bulged. I have tried practically everything else. Tested memory, tried different videocard. I don't believe it's the PSU because it's a Rosewill and not very old, although I can't eliminate that as a cause.
What gets me is the eeriness of the freeze. No BSOD, no errors in event viewer, or no indication as to what might be the cause, this is why I believe it may be the capacitor. Motherboard LEDs always read FF no matter what.
System:
EVGA 680i motherboard w/ Wolfdale e8500
4x1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR 800
EVGA 8800GTS/ MSI 8800 GTS
500GB WD SATA HD
Win XP SP3
Rosewill 600W psu
Realtek onboard NIC w/ nForce drivers
I did buy the system off of craigslist for a fairly good price, minus the hard drive. It's possible I got juped because the guy couldn't fix the problem and decided to just dump it on someone else.....
Thing is, the freezes only seem to be happening when copying a large .iso from my other computer through my network. Full test of 3dmark ran fine. Downloaded various programs and drivers from the internet that have installed fine. CPU does run a little hot with stock cooler but copying a file shouldn't generate nearly as much heat a 3Dmark test.
Low and behold looking in the case, I found a bulging capacitor directly behind the ethernet ports:
Even though the pix might not show it, it seems to be pretty bulged. I have tried practically everything else. Tested memory, tried different videocard. I don't believe it's the PSU because it's a Rosewill and not very old, although I can't eliminate that as a cause.
What gets me is the eeriness of the freeze. No BSOD, no errors in event viewer, or no indication as to what might be the cause, this is why I believe it may be the capacitor. Motherboard LEDs always read FF no matter what.
System:
EVGA 680i motherboard w/ Wolfdale e8500
4x1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR 800
EVGA 8800GTS/ MSI 8800 GTS
500GB WD SATA HD
Win XP SP3
Rosewill 600W psu
Realtek onboard NIC w/ nForce drivers
I did buy the system off of craigslist for a fairly good price, minus the hard drive. It's possible I got juped because the guy couldn't fix the problem and decided to just dump it on someone else.....
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