The caps must have been dying of dead spider overload.
Liz J

On 6 November 2012 20:34, Brett Russ <bruss@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:

Just wanted to follow up with the group on the final resolution of this issue (I hope!).  As I wrote earlier the new power supply didn't help.

I ended up buying a new motherboard, got it today, installed it tonight with the old power supply and all came right up w/o issues. 

Interesting findings: when I took the CPU cooler off there was a big dead spider curled up amongst the power inductors surrounding the CPU.  Also, there were a couple caps that were slightly "crowning", i.e. bulging a bit on top, when compared with some other identical ones on the board with the same capacity.  So I figure either of these could be contributors, more likely the caps.

Now I have a nearly brand new Antec 450W power supply back in the box, for sale if anyone's interested.

Thanks all for the help,
Brett

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