Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

[ronanmagee]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

I've posted some pics of my KT7 board earlier in this post.

Pics of the graphics card - I can do that once I pull the thing out and return it - I'll do it tomorrow - but as its going back it aint really a problem :-)

[willawake]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

i meant the board which had the bios flash. i want to see if that has badcaps

[ronanmagee]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

Ah sorry bit tired at the min!

I'll pull up some pics of it - but beware - its a P1! [gulp]

:-)

[willawake]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

if its a p1 then they are more likely to be suffering from old age than being badcaps. personally i dont flash PII or below. chances are that the bios chips are low quality and the flash fails.

[Newbie2]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

P1 (Pentium 1) are old. I would rather throw them in the trash than try to repair them. But, ronanmagee may still like his very old P1 motherboard andwants to bring it back to working order again. Does anybody know any online vendors that sell good low-ESR caps to where ronanmagee lives?

[willawake]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

United Kingdom - Farnell - http://uk.farnell.com/
United Kingdom - RS Components - http://rswww.com/
United Kingdom - Digikey - http://uk.digikey.com/
RS Components UK - Panasonic FC Link
RS Components UK - Panasonic FM Link

[ronanmagee]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

Hey guys,

cheers for the reply ... the P1 only has 2 caps on it from what I can see ... I dont really care about it any more - bin is where I think it may go.

As for my keyboard probs, seems once I replaced my AGP card with a PCI one all works 100%.

The AGP card had a problem I thinks, the fan didnt start and this may have caused the problems. All going grand now with my 1.5GB of ram :-0

[Newbie2]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

Hey guys,

cheers for the reply ... the P1 only has 2 caps on it from what I can see ... I dont really care about it any more - bin is where I think it may go.

As for my keyboard probs, seems once I replaced my AGP card with a PCI one all works 100%.

The AGP card had a problem I thinks, the fan didnt start and this may have caused the problems. All going grand now with my 1.5GB of ram :-0

That's good to hear. 1.5GB is a lot of RAM, I only have 1GB of RAM!

[ronanmagee]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

Ah bit of bad news .... it wont recognise all the sticks of 512MB of ram. Tested each one individually and they all work, but putting in a combination it doesnt recognise any of them - system speaker just squeels at me :-(

[ronanmagee]

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Hey all,

Anyone know if I can avail of this?


Schonning V. ABIT Computer (USA) Corporation

Is it possible to get the caps replaced under this settlement ... I'm in the UK.

Seems that I've got till the 15th Feb 2006 to get this done? Any confirm/deny?

[AK0R]

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No, sorry, you can't. Because the class action was filed in US courts, it only applies to US citizens. (I wonder how they would treat US citizens living abroad?)

[kc8adu]

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hand it off to someone in the us?

[ronanmagee]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

Happy days,
ABIT UK took the board in under RMA and are repairing it as I type - £12stg to cover the P&P - just have to wait and see what they return.

Regards,

Ronan

[Newbie2]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

Happy days,
ABIT UK took the board in under RMA and are repairing it as I type - £12stg to cover the P&P - just have to wait and see what they return.

Regards,

Ronan

Let's see what brand of caps they use to replace the failed caps on your board when you recieve it.

[ronanmagee]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

Hey guys, got my board back after being fixed by Abit UK under RMA - only cost £12 and that was to cover P&P. They've used Jackcon caps on it - are these any good? Pics attached --- oh, they also attached a new fan to the board, any ideas what its for?

Regards,

Ronan

[ronanmagee]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

Oh my god - I just got this reply from ABIT UK regarding the use of Jackcon caps ...

We do not use jackcon capacitors, those Jackcon capacitors are the original
on the board and they will not fail, that is why we did not change it.

What am I meant to do now?

[Chris1992]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

I'd suggest you insist that they change the Jackcons, or else just recap yourself. The fan is to cool the northbridge.

[yanz]

Re: Abit KT7 Dropping PS2 and AGP Card

the story of Abit KT7/A recapping.

I'd suggest you insist that they change the Jackcons, or else just recap yourself. The fan is to cool the northbridge.

yea, the jackon cap sucks.