I've seen LOTS of these motherboards from Compaq Presario SR5000 PCs fail thanks to the Terrible Kapacitors they come with. I've recapped sever al electrolytics with polies in the VRM, but this time around I decided to give it a FULL Poly mod.
I went with 820uF 2.5v polys on the VRM-out, 470uF 16V on the VRM in. The few 1800uF 16v caps near the PCI-E and DIMM slots were replaced by 1500uF 6.3v polys. For the other caps (the 1000uF 6.3v OSTs and the 16v 470uF G-Luxons) I kept the capacitance the same. Only trouble is, though, that the lytics were 8mm dia and the polys are 10mm, so it was a tight squeeze in some places.
The stress testing passed with flying colours. 4 days in total between memtest and prime95 without incident.
I went with 820uF 2.5v polys on the VRM-out, 470uF 16V on the VRM in. The few 1800uF 16v caps near the PCI-E and DIMM slots were replaced by 1500uF 6.3v polys. For the other caps (the 1000uF 6.3v OSTs and the 16v 470uF G-Luxons) I kept the capacitance the same. Only trouble is, though, that the lytics were 8mm dia and the polys are 10mm, so it was a tight squeeze in some places.
The stress testing passed with flying colours. 4 days in total between memtest and prime95 without incident.
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