I have an epox ep-3vca2. The cpu is a p3-733 coppermine with a 133 frontside bus. I can't get the damn thing to run at 133 fsb! 125 is fine and stable but anything above that crashes! I did a visual inspection of the caps and they look fine. The cpu/dimms all work properly on another motherboard. My powersupply is an enermax 300 watt. Anybody hear any bad news about the caps on epoxboards?
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The only Epox I've seen with bad caps was an OLD PP6-NB socket-8 Pentium Pro board... This was a couple years ago, and I haven't seen another one since. This doesn't mean that your board isn't suffering the plague.
As noted on www.badcaps.net/ident/ and kc8 mentioned, there isn't always physical signs. If you have the means to scope it, it would be worth a try.
To maybe answer your question in relation to your specific symptom, I have seen many Abit VP6 motherboards not able to run at full FSB speed (100MHz and higher) with faulty caps. What you described is one of the many symptoms.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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EPOX?
have you tried another psu?
do you have a scope?
caps can still be bad even if they look fine.
look for hash on the vcore line.
look at +3.3 +5 and +12 too.
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EPOX?
To maybe answer your question in relation to your specific symptom, I have seen many Abit VP6 motherboards not able to run at full FSB speed (100MHz and higher) with faulty caps. What you described is one of the many symptoms.
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