Motherboard seems to be locking up

[traxxton]

I have a Compaq Presario 5005CL w/ 1.1ghz AMD Athlon that seems to be randomly locking up after 1-5 minutes of being on. I replaced everything with working spares; ram, video card, cables, and hard drive. I figured it had to be the mobo/bios because when I replaced the battery, I went into the bios to correct the time and it locked up (time froze and couldnt do anything). It did that a few times, and there was a newer bios available, so I upgrade it. The upgrade went fine, but it still locked ups, both in windows and bios.

Does the motherboard need to be repaced, or anything else to check?

 

[Fern]

You might put Motherboard Monitor 5 on there to monitor you temps and voltages. Use the interval log feature and have it record the readings to text.doc.

 

[traxxton]

I dont think it'll stay up long enough to install it. Right now it seems to only last 1 minute or so before it locks up. All fans are running (have the case open).

 

[Blazer]

most likely the mobo,how old is the mobo as some 3 to 5 year old mobos had defective capacitors on all manufactures,do a internet search for defective capacitors

 

[traxxton]

From 2001. I'll have to find the motherboard model, but it was made by Compaq. I did a search to buy a replacement, but came up short. I'll do the search for defective capacitors and see what turns up.