The caps must have been dying of dead spider overload.<br>Liz J<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 November 2012 20:34, Brett Russ <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bruss@alum.wpi.edu" target="_blank">bruss@alum.wpi.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>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&#39;t help.<br>


<br>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.  <br><br>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 &quot;crowning&quot;, 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.<br>


<br>Now I have a nearly brand new Antec 450W power supply back in the box, for sale if anyone&#39;s interested.<br><br>Thanks all for the help,<br>Brett<br></div>
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