Looks like my playing PC is getting a new motherboard. Back when I changed the fan I noticed I have three capacitors that have popped and are oozing green powdery stuff out of the top. This is the same machine that HOH resides on currently. I've been having boot up problems and BIOS setting saving problems. I was looking around and came across a post that sounded like the same probs I was having so I dug deeper. Sure enough, I think I found why I've been having PC problems with my gaming machine. This link tells the story best:

http://www.timcousins.com.au/capacitorfailures.htm

I'll get more links to better pictures of what mine look like now and post them soon. I have to go to bed now! Check yours and make sure they don't look like mine! Later

My 3 bad caps look far worse than any in the pictures from the above link. I need to get me a digital camera. I was wrong about the color too. The leakage is a rusty orange looking powder. The little indent of a pressed silver cross isn't even visible on 2 of my bad ones. Two of mine have totally busted open at the top! This machine I 'm on right now! Later!

Sorry to hear about the caps hermskii if i was closer i would replace them for ya
Dark :twisted:
P.S keep cg and hoh alive wouldnt be the same with out them.
P.P.S if ya read this schwantz i still cant get on sbb ?? :evil: