First post, by ASTSix-Pack
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I have a Magitronic A-B341 386 motherboard that will shut down when trying to run programs. When I got the board, it had some issues with bad tantalum capacitors. I removed the bad capacitors and the system worked, until I tried running any programs. After booting to MS-DOS, if I try to run any programs, the system will either lock up and automatically restart after a few seconds, or lock up and completely freeze. I already cleaned the motherboard and didn't notice any bad traces. I reseated the CPU, bios chip, Ram, and tested the cache chips and the system continues to have the same problem. This is probably a stupid question , but could having a couple of tantalum capacitors removed cause any instability? Or am I dealing with another problem? Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!