Well, it has happened to my first BP6. Yesterday, I tried to wake it up and nothing happened. I was booted in Linux, moved the mouse, monitor would not come out of stand-by. I thought it was locked up. Pressing the reset button didn't restart the computer. Holding the power button in for more than 5 seconds didn't turn off the computer. I turned the power switch off on the power supply and then turned it back on. Fans started, lights came on, hard drives fired up but no video. I tried several times to power cycle using the power switch on back, including disconnecting the power cord, same results. Left it off overnight and tried this morning, same results.
Anyway, I looked at the mainboard and sure enough there are several bulging and oozing capacitors. I sent an email to the "capman" to find out if he is still doing the capacitor replacement for BP6's. I'd do it myself but I don't have the correct wattage for my soldering pencil to do this right. And, I'm not going to try and use my soldering gun. Too big.
This system has been running since August 1999. Since I loaded MD Linux 9.1 earlier this year, it had been locking up sometimes. I thought I was really stressing the system with Apache, Samba, Shorewall, two SETI's, etc. Nope. Just bad capacitors. I'm really bummed.
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