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I recently became the proud owner of an old Abit VP6 that supposedly worked before I got it. So I plug her in to take for a test drive and within the first few seconds, two caps popped (EC 30 and 31 if it matters). I read through the forums here and ventured to replace to two with some Radio Shack 1000uF 35V since they were easy to come by. Now one socket posts and will boot fine, but the other socket won't post at all. I have 2 PIII 1.0 identical processors and each will boot in the "working" socket fine, but the board won't post at all once a processor is in the "other" socket.
So my question is, would it be a good investment to recap the board and potentially solve my problem? or should I look for something else as the cause? or is this just bad news?
I recently became the proud owner of an old Abit VP6 that supposedly worked before I got it. So I plug her in to take for a test drive and within the first few seconds, two caps popped (EC 30 and 31 if it matters). I read through the forums here and ventured to replace to two with some Radio Shack 1000uF 35V since they were easy to come by. Now one socket posts and will boot fine, but the other socket won't post at all. I have 2 PIII 1.0 identical processors and each will boot in the "working" socket fine, but the board won't post at all once a processor is in the "other" socket.
So my question is, would it be a good investment to recap the board and potentially solve my problem? or should I look for something else as the cause? or is this just bad news?
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