Windows XP problem
I have an old desktop (HP 540n) running Windows XP SP3. It is old and slow, but until recently has worked very well. Now, every time I boot up, it starts as normal, gets to the desktop. I choose to...
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robsouth wrote:
donn0128, problem is, if I reboot to safe mode, it only last a few seconds and reboots itself again, over and over.
Gdetrailer, I think your last line says it all. I'm tired of fooling with it and there is nothing on it that isn't backed up somewhere else, so I think I will just remove the hard drives and "junk it".
Thanks all.
You can often confirm bad caps by looking at the tops of the electrolytic caps (these look like little cylinders standing up on the board). The tops on good ones are flat across, when they go bad the tops tend to puff up rounding the tops.
I have recapped several boards for myself but it is a long tiring process and if you don't change them all at one setting you end up chasing more down the road.
And yes, I have experienced that same symptom and the caps were the problem..
Sometimes we simply have to say we got our money's worth and call it a day.
