Re: Spontaneous unclean reboots

On 2008-09-23, Baron <baron.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Those bad caps can be replaced with a little patience and dexterity !

I have neither of those. Nor do I have a soldering iron.

My hands shake terribly too, unless I'm drunk, and I don't get drunk
anymore.

I probably repair a couple every month. Having said that I am assuming
that you may want to have a go yourself rather than pay someone else to
do it for you.

I wouldn't pay anybody to replace capacitors on an eight year old
motherboard.

A reasonable alternative is to buy a cheap Dell box. You should be able
to get one for about 200 euro without a screen, keyboard and mouse.

I'm thinking I just might buy myself a new main board with all the
trimmings.
.

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