Random panics on new hardware

Ben Smithurst ben at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 29 11:28:03 BST 2004


Jon Schneider wrote:

> Does the motherboard by any chance have electrolytic capacitors with 
> curved metal caps (which should be flat) ? They're the cylindrical 
> components which might be black with gold writing and near the CPU. There 
> was a spate of motherboards built with duff ones a few years ago.

No, all the capacitors I can see have flat silver tops.  It's a brand
new motherboard so I would think it should be ok.

hey ho...  I'm sure I/we will figure out the problem eventually. :-)

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