My family bought 4 of these PCs from Aldi Foods. 3 of the 4 ended up with bad caps. One was replaced by Medion (it was within 2 years of purchase). I sent my daughter's board to Badcaps.net to replace the caps. That PC is working very well. Great job, great price! I intend sending my Grandson's board to them after the holidays. Mine is the only one that is still working. I never shut it down, should I be concerned after all this time? Why hasn't there been a class-action suit filed on the bad cap installed by MSI?
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Re: Medion with bad caps
Well, most of those Medion / MSI crap cap board become some kind of cap related quirks some time. But as long as you do not use it heavily, you won`t notice it. But if you someday replace the GFX or cpu with a faster more power hungry one, than you probably would have instantly problems. But as most prople who purchased an MEDion system are probably non gamer and probably only use those systems as word procesing machine, they probably won`t notice any problems until the warranty is long long expired. The psu`s caps are usually death before the board`s ones are. This is due to the very low airflow (well, people like silent systems, Medion provided them...) and the high ambient temperature within those psu`s. For most people, recapping of board & psu should fix those systems until the end of their usfull life.
In generall, i have not seen many burned Medion / MSI boards, thus i would not assume, that there could be some catastrophic failure caused by badcaps on those systems. May be, a bad PSU would affect the HDD, but i think, that the system would probably show other errors prior to hdd dammge.
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I know I've been a little scarce lately (like the last 2-3 years), but I'm still here and still doing my thing with fixing PSUs.
For today's considerations, I have a Seasonic B12 BC-550 [A551bcafh] 550 Watt ATX power supply for you (click on links for full size images).
https://www.badcaps.net/filedata/fetch?id=3591771
https://www.badcaps.net/filedata/fetch?id=3591772
It's a modern ATX unit with fixed (non-modular) cables and an 80-plus bronze certificate. Here's the label:
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Hello,
First, I am a complete noob with high voltage stuff. I'm learning, but I need help by someone looking over my shoulder.
I recently came into posession of a Heathkit IO-4205 5MHz Dual Trace Oscilloscope. The documentation is copyright 1978. I'm told it works.
I opened it up to check the caps before I applied power, and found the following black caps and wanted to know what they were. They are on the power supply board. I was able to read the name and model and came up with, "Nytronics 162J-1, 0.1uF, 20% tolerance, 2000VDC."
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Hello!
I have two projects on my work bench. One is a friends dead JBL Xtreme speaker with a blown voltage regulator and corresponding bulged and shorted cap. That cap has clear markings so I know what replacement I need for it.
The other project however is a whole different deal. It's a Zoom 9000 guitar effect from the 90th that has developed a devil hound howl when there is no input from the guitar. I'm guessing caps problem. So, since I don't really use this effect anymore I thought it would be a perfect project to learn on.
I have studied the board and... -
I'm trying to repair two old VCRs, they both have bad caps. One has leaky ones, the other would barely run until I subbed in some caps from another power supply I had laying around (though they are the wrong values). This vcr works for an hour or two, but then the power supply starts whining and the picture gets lines in it. I didn't replace all the secondary caps, so another voltage might still be problematic, or the values I used are too far off.
I've been on mouser and digikey but the options are a bit overwhelming. I just need some new ones that will work. They don't need to be top quality,... -
Good evening
I recently aquired a rev 1.1 Gigabyte 60XT, and was suprised of the amount of leaking caps for a motherboard of the P3 era. Especially the way the 330µf caps seems like the housing discolored even.
Now, there are some 3300µF 6.3V KZG series around the CPU. Would it be OK to replace them with something like EEUFR1A332 ? (Panasonic FR 3300µF 10V). Or was this board designed around very low ESR caps?
But I was also suprised about the bigger boys, which are 330µF 25V.
Could it be they used 25V caps because they were cheaper / available at that time?...
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