The Logic Off Topic list

At 11:21 PM 2/15/04 -0500, you wrote:
>  Hi Murray,
>
>> A new board (a by then hard to find Asus TUSLC2 - superceded components
>are
>> not easy to get) fixed everything.
>
>  Luckily my board is an ASUS TUSLC-2. Or maybe not so lucky...I would
>rather the board be bad than my hard drive.

OK  nice board ;-)

It is possible that your board was built after this problem came to light
in which case the caps could be fine. If you can remember when you bought
the board this might help - my Abit board that went bad was made about mid
2000 and it died about Aug/Sep 2002.

Here are a bunch of articles on this:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6085
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13962
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5878

This one is on IBM's way of handling this. 

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10115

One test would be to get another drive, ghost your current system onto it
and see if it does any better in the machine. Drives are very cheap now and
if there is anything wrong with the current drive you won't lose your
data/system. I like to keep a drive lying around for emergencies - I bought
a n 80 Gig Seagate 7200.7 for 100 bucks Australian a week or two ago.

Regards,
Murray