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  • Ritalin
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2010
    • 194
    #1

    Identify Flawed Motherboards

    So I notice this forum has a whole section for recap'ing motherboards, and I was wondering how do you know a motherboard has bad caps?(Besides looking at the caps that is) Completely dead? Doesn't boot to bios?

    Since I have been repairing monitors (Up to 10 now) I think it's time to start expanding and learning more stuff to repair.

    Thanks in advance!
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    • mockingbird
      Badcaps Legend
      • Dec 2008
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      Re: Identify Flawed Motherboards

      1) If the capacitors are off-brand
      2) If the capacitors are HN/HM with a datecode before '05 or '06 (not sure)
      3) If the capacitors are KZG or KZJ
      4) If the capacitors are bulged, even if they're known good series

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