Are there by any chance recappers in Raleigh, NC? I have an ECS motherboard with a bulging OST cap. It's not misbehaving yet, but I don't trust it.
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Re: Recappers in Raleigh, NC
Since you are living in the USA. You should contact Topcat (Owner of the forum) for a quote to repair the bad cap on your motherboard. You can get your motherboard to Topcat by sending it in a parcel or similar I guess.Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous
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...Before y'all ask, no, I'm not Topcat!
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Anyway, while unsuccessfully hunting down a rig (or parts for such) for my Dad's future gaming rig, I saw something I thought was Topcat's cup of tea... and it was. It also happened to be "local" to me (as a pickup only item), so I was dispatched to fetch this rig until the next time I head out to MO (which is a semi-regular occurance these days, between family and tradebait
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Anyway, I shot pics, and he said to post them, so here we go!
This is a 1999 AcerAltos 1100 Server/workstation:
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Of course the motherboard is as the thread title states; X10dai....but we'lre going to have some fun shoehorning this into a modern 'gamer case' that can actually... -
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Seems its a liked rollup.....but when the support site for it is in Russian, lets just say I'm skeptical. I've rolled it out on a couple test systems, nothing exploded....but what's the man behind the curtain done that isn't known? What's say any of you?
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