Hey I just wanted to thank you for setting up this web site. I'm still green when it comes to recapping, however I'm experienced with soldering and so forth as I regularly replace defective power jacks on laptops. Until this week, I hadn't really put much thought into recapping a board.
I had an HP desktop which would shut down when I tried to reinstall XP. I did all the routine things a person would suspect with this problem: check memory, try a new processor, check the heatsink, fan and thermal paste, try a different power supply, hard drive and remove PCI cards. I even flashed the BIOS. After running across this site I decided to spend 11 bucks on some capacitors (got the Rubycons of course) and that computer is good as new now. The originals showed absolutely no physical sign of being bad, but I understand they don't always bulge or leak when this happens. Too bad I already pulled out half my hair trying to figure this one out...haha
Thanks to this site I've caught on to something that could save my customers some serious money (and of course make some myself). I appreciate the open discussion as well. Thanks, guys!
I had an HP desktop which would shut down when I tried to reinstall XP. I did all the routine things a person would suspect with this problem: check memory, try a new processor, check the heatsink, fan and thermal paste, try a different power supply, hard drive and remove PCI cards. I even flashed the BIOS. After running across this site I decided to spend 11 bucks on some capacitors (got the Rubycons of course) and that computer is good as new now. The originals showed absolutely no physical sign of being bad, but I understand they don't always bulge or leak when this happens. Too bad I already pulled out half my hair trying to figure this one out...haha
Thanks to this site I've caught on to something that could save my customers some serious money (and of course make some myself). I appreciate the open discussion as well. Thanks, guys!
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