Quote Originally Posted by 00tec View Post
Take a look at the capacitors on the motherboard. Most are close to the ram. Are they swollen? If so, it can be repaired. I'm fixing mine once I decide to get off my ass.
Uh, hmmm. I'll have to take a looky!

What's happening is the machine works fine for awhile but then the video display gets all wacky looking, multi-colored and speckled. No matter what monitor or drivers. Micro Center messed with it for weeks, finally throwing in the towel and giving my money back for the diagnostic work.

Could capacitors cause this? The PC doesn't die, just the display becomes unusable. Sometimes a reboot will fix it, but usually not. I haven't even hooked the bastard back up since MC gave it back.