Changing Caps?

[ncdave]

Tomcat, your coils (and the replacement caps that Jackcon sent me) fixed my motherboard!! THANK YOU!!!
-Dave

[Topcat]

KILLER BEANS!! Glad I saved that old board, many times it nearly got pitched, but the pack rat that I am always told myself I'll need something off it someday...

Glad it worked!!

[ncdave]

Well, I was wrong. I didn't believe that the techs at Abit would replace only some of the bad caps on a motherboard. But I just (finally!) got back the RMA replacement for that BP6 that I sent 'em, and ten of its 1500uF caps are still Tayeh, the other two are Teapo. So it sure looks like they just pulled out a couple of visibly bad Tayeh caps and replaced them with Teapo caps. Sheesh!

EC10 is just 100 uF, too.

The 1000uF caps are all gold-writing-on-black Teapos.

Big waste of time and shipping. I shoulda recapped it myself.

[ncdave]

Well, in the interest of fairness, I should mention that the RMA replacement BP6 which Abit sent me does seem to work okay, in spite of the Tayeh caps. I still would feel a lot better if they'd replaced 'em, but (for now, anyhow) it runs fine.

[Oxy]

My L18 coil is dead too. Does anyone know where I could get a replacement?

[Topcat]

My L18 coil is dead too. Does anyone know where I could get a replacement?

Going to have to find a spare dead board and scavenge the coil from that. If you cant find one, unwind the coil, get new wire the same dimensions and length and rewind it by hand.

[kc8adu]

i think i have a good l18 on a fubared bp6