I have an 810MLR unit socket A plus 700MHz Duron which has now died after 43 years of faithful service. The bootup keeps cycling and never gets to the post bleep, and the floppy drive led stays on with its motor running. Some of the radial capacitor bases look convex and one is perforated, poss signs of being spiked. I am assuming that the motherboard is now u/s, but I'm not sure about the CPU. The PSU voltages are all correct and the ram / peripherals have all been removed / swapped without any change in the initial fault. How can I now localise the fault so that I can be confident about which replacement part to fit. Is it safe to assume that the CPU has also had it? If the PSU has gone unreliable, I dont want to fit a new motherboard only to find it getting spiked also.
Please don't tell me to scrap it cos we've shared such great times together.
TA
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