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  • fed32169
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    • Aug 2006
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    XP harder on caps than ME?

    I got an old k7t pro2 (6330 v1)w/an Athlon 1Ghz that has a plethora of Chhsi junk (every one of which will be removed and destroyed in some satisfiying way) upon it,2 of which i already replaced(by the AGP)as they were about to spew, but the 4 caps around the processor are nichicons("HD"; plain aluminum style)and I figure if the ain't broke, you know, but as for the 3 near the north edge they're 3900's@10v "YAGEO"dark green /gold lettering.
    This machine is in a new case w/400 W supply, which has handled 2 other boards admirably in the past 45 days.
    Lemme tell ya this thing has been a severe pain in the pick a fleshy area.
    had 2 turn off EVERYTHING in the bios to get it to setup win xp, which it finally did after 29 hours and four restarts after errors.The inability to operate with the internal cache enabled really does a bad thing to usefulness and also to my mindset.
    I just wanna set this old thing up as a file server in the closet w/ a couple 250's worth of tunes in the box.
    The thing is it sets up WIN ME in a blink, and will run it for days without having to touch the bios at all!
    I wonder why XP is so hard on these caps, whereas ME ain't.Is this the case , or what am i missing?
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    • linuxguru
      Badcaps Legend
      • Apr 2005
      • 1564
      #2
      Re: XP harder on caps than ME?

      I suspect that ME might be harder than XP on the caps since it doesn't use CPUIDLE to idle the CPU in low-load states - YMMV. LInux is the best for CPU power management.

      Regarding the caps, the Nichicon HD bare-aluminium lacquer-finish caps are excellent, and Yageo (holding company for Teapo, Luxon, etc.) should be OK, but you can try replacing them if you want. Chhsi is definitely crap.

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        • arneson
          Badcaps Legend
          • Sep 2005
          • 1267
          #3
          Re: XP harder on caps than ME?

          I have a machine that will run ME no problem but blue screens and will not load XP.
          After also going thru hell with this I just had to accept it, the on board memory was glitched. My conclusion may be different from yours but XP uses memory differently regaurdless of caps.
          Jim

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            • Rainbow
              Badcaps Legend
              • Aug 2005
              • 1371
              #4
              Re: XP harder on caps than ME?

              If there are any Chhsi left, replace them. They can fail without bulging.

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