Capacitor Problem?

My MSI GNB Max motherboard has suddenly started to
refuse to complete a warm boot. It gets part way through
the BIOS messages (not always the same place) and hangs.
If I try four or five times it will finally complete the process.
Once it's running, however, it's steady as a rock. I leave it
on 24/7 and it is extremely stable. The only time I reboot
is after installing or uninstalling various pieces of software
that require a reboot. This started happening about the same
time as I installed Vista but I'm pretty sure that's just a
coincidence since it hangs well before any OS software starts
to load. Is it possible for bad caps to cause this? Maybe not
charging up or discharging properly?

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Tom Lake

Are the caps bulging or leaking brown goo?

- Grun

Tom Lake wrote:
> My MSI GNB Max motherboard has suddenly started to
> refuse to complete a warm boot. It gets part way through
> the BIOS messages (not always the same place) and hangs.
> If I try four or five times it will finally complete the process.
> Once it's running, however, it's steady as a rock. I leave it
> on 24/7 and it is extremely stable. The only time I reboot
> is after installing or uninstalling various pieces of software
> that require a reboot. This started happening about the same time as I
> installed Vista but I'm pretty sure that's just a coincidence since it
> hangs well before any OS software starts to load. Is it possible for
> bad caps to cause this? Maybe not charging up or discharging properly?
>