Super TWiT
- Aug 8, 2011
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Hi everyone, I am new here, but want to learn more about electronics. Anyway, to start off, I have a question about my pentium 4 motherboard. I am having issues with it where it will randomly crash, the clock will tick every other second (sometimes), and the BIOS splash screen sometimes says the cpu has hyper threading, but most of the time it doesn't, even though it is enabled and the cpu and motherboard both support it. I've tried many things, I've replaced the power supply, replaced the CPU, replaced the CMOS battery, upgraded the BIOS, cleaned the CPU socket contacts, tested the CPU and ram both for 24 hours, and I've found nothing So, I noticed today that several of the capacitors seem really loose, as I can wiggle easily them with my finger. Is this a sign of a poor connection? Could this be causing my problems? I know an electronic repair shop that would replace those caps really cheap. (I'd do it myself, but I don't know how to solder!) However, I wanted to make sure this really was a problem, as I thought caps were supposed to "have a little wiggle room". Apparently eHow says this is abnormal.