Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Feisty Freeze Issue Resolved

After removing every piece of hardware from my PC, trying every kernel parameter suggested, and still not resolving my PC freeze issue, I bought a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM. It was only when I removed the old motherboard that I noticed what was probably causing my problems: see the brown stuff leaking out of a capacitor in the picture below.

Since changing the motherboard, I have not had one freeze. I am now running Gutsy and compiz-fusion without any problems.

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1 comments:

B. Mark said...

Yeah, I had that happen once - the capacitors leak do to excessive charge buildup or something. Dell Optiplex computers have that problem a lot.