First post, by lowlytech
I have a chaintech 5vgm m101 mainboard that has a strange issue. Every 10 boots or so I get no post. Press reset and it usually will go ahead and start up. Well it has gotten worse. Now it doesn't work more than it does, and it starts doing weird things where the directory listings will be strange symbols and smile faces, reboot and the files are fine again for a short while then have lockups and other issues. I have swapped power supplies, disconnected all drives, changed CPU's, memory, hard drive, changed memory settings, turned external cache off, wiped cmos settings, flashed the bios to new version and the ghost still remains. All caps look great, but nontheless since the behavior mimic's that of bad caps, I did a recap, and tested the old caps, they were all in spec. About to give up I just happen to see a SMT area where it looks like something was broke off. It doesn't look like the other areas with solder are that never had anything mounted there, you can still see an indention like something was there. Only problem is I don't know what a BC is. Only thing I can think of is bi-polar capacitor? The other BC's on the board look like capacitors. I don't know the history on this board as it was an ebay purchase, but does anyone know what I should put there in BC12?
Thanks a bunch..