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Old 05-02-2019, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by matthew
If there are any electrolytic capacitors in there, I'd replace them as a first step.


I second that motion! Electrolytic capacitors are prone to degrade over time. I once got an email from an electrolytic capacitor manufacturer stating that they had neglected put a stabilizer in the paste they use inside the capacitors they were manufacturing for years; visit the capacitor plague at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague . On the computer mother boards I have repaired when the electrolytic capacitors around the RAM chips start to fail the computer starts to behave oddly, similar as described.
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