Just a thought: has anyone experienced RAM that went bad because of a bad capacitor? I mean, directly, without taking anything else out. I saw the bad caps that took out the inductor and power FET at the top of this forum's links, but I've never seen bad RAM as the only mortality on the board due to bad caps.
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Re: Bad RAM due to bad caps?
From what I understand it is possible for bad caps to damaged ram.
Well I'll restate that, the effects of bad caps to cause damage from high ripple I believe.
but not really the guru on this subject.You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you may be swept off to." Bilbo Baggins ... -
Re: Bad RAM due to bad caps?
i have seen bad ram on a board with badcaps. it was still unstable after recapping. might be a coincidence though. if there was a strong connection between badcaps and damaged ram i am sure we would have seen more reports. its not unlikely though, just not that commonComment
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Re: Bad RAM due to bad caps?
Thanks guys. This gives me more confidence to fit my expensive RAM to test my friends' mobos that have been giving them headaches.Comment
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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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Looks like I may need a little help from the PSU experts (or anyone really!
) I have a Corsair CX750M (Model 75-002019) that I picked up for free about 4 years ago. This is the PSU:
So here’s what’s strange about this one: it appears to work normally (normal output voltages) and any PC is stable with it. However, after a while (typically 10-20 minutes, but time can vary depending on the load), there is a sweetish smell of burned magnet wire insulation emanating from the PSU. Upon opening the PSU after this happened (many times), I was able to confirm... -
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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,... -
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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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