Hello,

I have this PC since june last year and it's a misery.

From the beginning I had problems :

- network connection crashes after some time

- Sometimes when switching on the PC hangs and I get only the LED of the "scroll lock" burning. I can only swith off the PC then and I can use <ESC> for this too (VERY strange). The only thing to boot up again is to switch first off the switch on the power supply. In the beginning this was only on a PS/2-port but now it's on USB too (but rare). But on USB sometimes he's waiting a long time to start booting with only the intro-screen (same problem? Probably yes).

Since a few weeks there are other problems.

- One or two disks are not found sometimes by the BIOS. Sometimes the third (with the O.S.) gives errors when shutting down.
- The second gives a bad CRC sometimes.

Some other things are fixed :

- The power supply of the ADSL-gateway (D-Link) gave it up. I'm using now a LINKSYS AG241

- The plug of the power-supply had 20 pins instead of 24. Fixed with adapter.

What could be the reason? Power Supply, motherboard, faulty disks?

Configuration
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motherboard : ASUS A8N SLI (PCI-Express)
processor : AMD Athlon 3500+ (64-bit)
memory : Kingston DDR2 2*512 MB in two-channel mode
graphic card : ASUS EN5750 (PCI-Express)
disks : 3 * Western Digital Raptor 35 GB (SATA2)

Thanks all!!

Ronald

My First question would be about this?
Is this the plug to the Motherboard?

- The plug of the power-supply had 20 pins instead of 24. Fixed with adapter.

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Sounds like the problem with the bad caps intalled on the ASUS motherboards.

-Cheers

Hello all,

Thanks for replying. To answer your question : yes, it's the plug to the motherboard which has now an adapter between. could this in the meanwhile damage the board?

I'm very interested in the "bad caps"-story. What do you mean by it and can I do something about?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings,

Ronald