Recap motherboards :: Abit KG7-LITE and Soltek SL-75FRN2-L

[Foetuss]

Hi all

Hope this is in the correct place.

I'm planning on recapping both motherboards. I actually already ordered recplament caps for them, where I will be changing out most for poly's.
Could use some double checking to see if I'm not doing something stupid .

Pictures of the boards are attached.
What I will be replacing with what : (planned)

Soltek Golden ::
4 1500µF 16V 10mm (5mmL) KZG => APSG160ELL152MJ16S (Chemi-Con 1500µF 16V)
6 3300µF 6.3V 10mm (5mmL) KZG => APSG160ELL272MJ20S (Chemi-Con 2700µF 16V)
1 1000pF 3kv ceramic => 564R30GAD10 (Vishay 3kv 1000pF 20%)

Abit Lite socket A ::
6 4700µF 6.3V 12mm => APSG160ELL272MJ20S (Chemi-Con 2700µF 16V)
9 1500µF 6.3v 8mm => RNU0J122MDN1KX (Nichicon 1200µF 6.3V)
2 2200µF 6.3v 10mm => APSG160ELL222MJ20S (Chemi-Con 2200µF 16V)

It was cheaper for me to order the 16V versions, unless there is a reason these were cheaper that I missed on first glance.
I tried to keep as close as possible to the original capacitance. Only the Abit 4700µF to be replaced with 2700µF might be close?

Also, if I were to have gone with for example Panasonic FR's. Would the boards also work, but for example have less overhead for overclocking or similar? I have seen people recap with FR's without issue, while others condemn (hard words) of using them to replace KZG series.
For a novice as myself, its hard to know which direction to follow.

Final question, more practical. The golden board has some pads missing on the backside of the boards where a capacitator used to be. If I google'd correctly, the actual connection is made inside the "tube" in the board? And not just the small circle pads on the back of the pcb?

Thanks!

[stj]

on the soltek the 16v caps are smoothing the 12v from the psu and FR would be fine,
the 6.3v ones are the cpu vrm and i would have used polymer caps.
why are you replacing the ceramic cap though?

[Foetuss]

Thanks for the reply!

So for the Soltek the Chemi-cons should be fine, if a bit overkill for the 16V ones.
Regarding the ceramic, its not visible on this picture. But the other side somehow has a huge deep scratch on it at the top. Its the only 'damage' on the board. So I rather just replace it.
Kept the original one, have not measured it. I figured to just replace it for the couple of cents it costs to purchase a new one.

[lti]

On the Abit, it looks like the two closest to the AGP slot are connected to 5V from the PSU. FR would also work there. Depending on what the original caps were, they might even work for all six locations.

[randmusr]

I would consider replacing the 1000uf around the RAM area of the Soltek board. I've a thread a few spots down with many nforce 2 boards needing those changed out.

[Mattz_GT]

Might want to consider the ones near the other cored coils on each board, as they could be AGP or RAM VRM

[Foetuss]

Thanks for the update guys. I recapped the Abit board with succes. And will check to order some caps to replace those around the memory and near the cored coils as suggested.
The Golden board was already sold dead, and i hoped recapping is would bring back some life. But it stays .. dead . Completely dead. I do have another one that actually lives (a later revision) that I will recap. And on that board all caps around the memory modules are indeed leaking.

Thanks for all the input.

[Mattz_GT]

Any track damage, looks like the chipset had a heatsink and sometimes scrappers butcher it taking that off. Can you get a reader / programmer for that style of BIOS chip. How dead was it, it's unlikely that badcaps (unless shorted) would prevent ATX power on, not even sure if a bad BIOS would prevent power on as it's not actually running code at that point

[stj]

it may be a bad tiny electrolytic in the supervisor/reset circuit
try manually resetting with the header pins