MSI 6309, Epox EP-3VBM+ and Chaintech 7AIA5

[Jazzper]

Hello guys, first post here, hope you can help me.

I got 3 motherboards on which i spent a lot of time in the past but they seem dead. I'm now in the stadium of recapping or the dustbin for them

I ran tests with a lot of variables like other memory, different cpu's, coolers, vga cards, pci vs agp, different PSU's etc etc so I converged the problems on those boards due to the mainboards itself. Needless to say i also tried resetting CMOSses etc etc.

Boys, meet the victims:

1. MSI 6309
socket 370 board. I use it with a Piii 800EB. Former owner used a Piii 866.
Manage to install WinXP actually but after first reboot (post installing, pre first run in gui) it just keeps on rebooting. Frustrating because it doenst seem dead
Even knoppix won't run. Tried with AGP and PCI cards etc. The caps did it?

Caps are: Tayeh 2700's (the black ones), Chhi's (1500's, green)







2. Epox EP-3VBM+
This nice uATX s370 board came with a Celeron 633. Got it from a friend because it seemed broken. Well it wont give a kick. Fans wont start running.
Is it really a unit lost?

Caps brands are Tayeh (the green ones), GSC (the little black ones) and Stone (black)




3. Chaintech 7AIA5
Bit the same story as the Epox. Got it for free but never worked. SocketA (462).
Caps are D.S. 2200's black, NKCon (?) (green, japan), S.G.(?)




Any clues?
Don't be fooled by the Canon Powershot lens. The wide angle is kinda having a barrel effect so even a brand new cap will look round barrelled I'm afraid

[willawake]

Re: MSI 6309, Epox EP-3VBM+ and Chaintech 7AIA5

no.1 and no.3 the photos show you definitely have badcaps. no.2 they are all bad brands and are probably failed.

no.1 you have a very good change of successful recapping (still posts)
no. 2 and 3 may need more than recapping but its worth a try

[Jazzper]

Re: MSI 6309, Epox EP-3VBM+ and Chaintech 7AIA5

hmm thx for the clearifying reply.

Time to heat up that iron pistol of me

I will gonna read some topics around here before starting but as a 1st question: do i need to recap all the caps or just the biggies?

[willawake]

Re: MSI 6309, Epox EP-3VBM+ and Chaintech 7AIA5

you should recap all 1000uf and above. if you have any small caps with high voltage like 470uf 16v and 330uf 25v you should do them as well.

you mention a pistol iron? it may be too powerful

[Jazzper]

Re: MSI 6309, Epox EP-3VBM+ and Chaintech 7AIA5

no it was a word joke

i mean my ordinary Weller 25Watt