Dead Motherboard? Analysis please.

[TheMagnificentCheese]

I've been using my EpoX 8RDA+ mobo for about two years now. Never a hitch. But I think today is the day that it died. Please confirm.

Watching an episode of South Park last night, the computer just up and restarts on me. It makes it to the memory count and freezes. So I unplug the system, reseat some stuff, make sure I'm drawing enough power, and try again. This time, it doesn't even make it to the memory count. So I unplug and go to sleep. I'll deal with it in the morning.

This morning, I get as far as the screen prompting me to start windows in safe mode or normally. I choose normal and it freezes. I keep trying and on several occasions it halts at the memory count because it doesn't detect my fans' RPMs... Now finally I start it up and everything is going fine... then some weird horizontal white lines engulf my screen during the IDE detection, kind of like those dumb fade effects in PowerPoint.

Anyways. Are these surefire signs that my motherboard is dumping?

If you need any more information, feel free to ask. I'll be checking back frequently. I'd need to order any new parts ASAP.

Thanks in advance.

 

[TheMagnificentCheese]

bump
:-(

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Sounds like it, check the caps and see if they are bulging or oozing

 

[TheMagnificentCheese]

Definitely not doing that. But one more thing is the sensors. When I first boot and the sensors report fan speeds and voltage going to each part, the numbers are usually red. It reports my system temperature as zero degrees celcius sometimes and that my fans aren't working at all (which I can obviously hear that they are). It also, for at least a few weeks, has reported at boot that my Vdd (I'm assuming voltage) is around 1.2. This AMD CPU requires 1.5v as default voltage. I have the bios regulator set to 1.5v.

I took half my memory out and got it to boot to windows yesterday, but upon restarting to re-test the memory no configuration, even the previously successful one, could reproduce that effect.

I'm thinking, due to the sensors going wack, that the motherboard is indeed dying. Any other suggestions worth posting?

I REALLY appreciate it.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

8RDA+ is notorious for bad capacitors. I have one sitting on my bench right now.

Some photos of leaking and bulging capacitors to compare: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=195

As the caps go south, the mobo will act wackier and wackier. The one on my bench has trouble POSTing from a cold start.