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Geeky1
22 Sep 2003, 9:13pm
So, if you saw my thread in the emergency help forum a little while back, you probably know I whacked a cap next to the primary cpu socket on my MSI Pro266TD-LR (Dual P3/DDR board). It wouldn't boot after that, although it turned out to be a bad stick of ram. I ended up zeroing the drive before I found that out, though, so now with a totally clean drive and the bad stick gone, it's still a little flaky at times- like it just BSODed on me when I clicked a link on one of our e-mail notifications in yahoo, and sometimes it'll just stop responding...

What do you guys think- this my fault, windows, via (it's got a via chipset) or something else?

Geeky1
22 Sep 2003, 9:20pm
here's MSI's pic of the board, with the arrow pointing at the cap (if it makes a difference)

TheLostSwede
22 Sep 2003, 9:51pm
If you have an old board with the same type of cap, just try that on. You can always solder it on underneath the board if you find the spots where the broken one is. Should be easy enough. The specs and names is on the caps.