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From: hashemi@leadsv.UUCP (Rahmat O. Hashemi)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b1 motherboard question
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Date: 4 Dec 90 21:40:23 GMT
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In article <1990Dec3.045132.399@texrex.uucp> rmfowler@texrex.uucp (Rex Fowler) writes:
>On my 2 Meg motherboard at location C38, there is a capacitor whose
>legs are touching.  Can somebody tell me if they have the same situation.
>The capacitor is right next to the 1st row of 256K memory chips(location A2).
>

This could indeed be the cause of your problems.

The capacitor is between the power/ground pins, so if the legs are 
intermittently touching each other, they are causing a power-to-grouns short.

Hope that you did seperate the legs, and hope that helped you :-) .