Venkat Viswanathan wrote; (in part)
>finally a thorough look at the mobo showed that one portion of the sort of
>four pillars(fixed on to the mobo)surrounding the cpu and provided to hold
>the heatsink/fan had come loose.
The items you looked at are capacitors. I would look more closely at then to
see if they have "domed tops" which would indicate they are bad. There were
a rash of defective ones due to the fact someone stole a quantity of the
solution inside and didn't do a good job duplicating it. This is just a
thought.
An article worth reading.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=195
Sincerely,
Frank Suszka
netTek Computers
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