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Old 02-10-2010, 11:56 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Given the age of the machine, check for bulging capacitors on the motherboard. Typically the ones around the CPU socket will fail first. One cap that feeds the RAM is a common one as well.

I say this because often sudden explorer issues indicate this failure.
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