Bad caps on a video card?

[logic7]

Since I'm going to recap my motherboards soon, I thought about one of my video cards that's been fairly problematic for me. The card came with my Asus board that's about to be recapped and is a Zogis GeForce FX5500 256MB AGP (ZO55-DAGP). It tends to works intermittently, usually resulting in locking up after a while. I figured I'd take a look at the caps on the board and they all look fine, but the name on the caps was cause for concern.



A google search brought me to a list of known bad manufacturers on this very site with Stone being on the list.

My question: Since I'm already getting these to repair my ASRock board, should I go ahead and order enough of them to replace the caps on this video card as well to see if that fixes the stability problems I've had with it?

[mariushm]

Re: Bad caps on a video card?

Yes, Panasonic FM is a good series to replace those capacitors with.

But you might as well order 1000uF 16v, looks like there's plenty of room on the video card and those 1000uF 16v are not more expensive and have even longer life.

[Mrx3750]

Re: Bad caps on a video card?

You might also wanna check the heatsink. Video cards locking up after awhile could be caused by the GPU getting too hot. If the card supports temperature monitoring, you may want to keep an eye on it while running some benchmarking software.

[ben7]

Re: Bad caps on a video card?

You might also wanna check the heatsink. Video cards locking up after awhile could be caused by the GPU getting too hot. If the card supports temperature monitoring, you may want to keep an eye on it while running some benchmarking software.

And to add to that, if the heatsink has a fan, make sure the fan still works!

[logic7]

Re: Bad caps on a video card?

The card doesn't have a fan, but whomever owned it before me grafted a 40mm fan to it. That didn't help at all.

[y_not]

Re: Bad caps on a video card?

Check the TIM under the heatsink.
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