Everyone seems to have gone on a craze buying these SFX (small form-factor) systems... Until last week, I've never seen one up close... All I saw of this one was the defective motherboard with bad capacitors!! I am not sure what Shuttle model it is, as it's not printed on the board. It has a 1.4GHz Tualatin-S 512k L2 CPU in it though, so it's not their lowest-end model...
There is a photo taken BEFORE it was recapped! Note the 3 large caps by the CPU heatsink with the bulged tops... This board/system is less than 18 months old... It's kinda sad the shoddy components Shuttle used. These capacitors are marked with the 'Gloria' brand, which I've nevr even heard of until I encountered this board.
The 3 big caps were a strange value, 3900uF 6.3v caps, they were wide open!! My Sencore LC102 wouldn't read from them at all. I couldn't locate any 3900uF capacitors in a timely fashion, so I replaced them with Nichicon 3300uF 10v caps. 3300uF is within the 20% tolerance of 3900uF, so I tried them. I also replaced 6 - 1000uF 16v caps, and 2 - 2200uH 6.3v caps for a total of 11. The board is now working perfectly! The 3300uF substitution worked fine. The next step would have been 4700uF had the 3300uF caps failed, but they didn't, so all is spiffy!!
This just goes to show that this will happen to much newer hardware, not just older stuff...
There is a photo taken BEFORE it was recapped! Note the 3 large caps by the CPU heatsink with the bulged tops... This board/system is less than 18 months old... It's kinda sad the shoddy components Shuttle used. These capacitors are marked with the 'Gloria' brand, which I've nevr even heard of until I encountered this board.
The 3 big caps were a strange value, 3900uF 6.3v caps, they were wide open!! My Sencore LC102 wouldn't read from them at all. I couldn't locate any 3900uF capacitors in a timely fashion, so I replaced them with Nichicon 3300uF 10v caps. 3300uF is within the 20% tolerance of 3900uF, so I tried them. I also replaced 6 - 1000uF 16v caps, and 2 - 2200uH 6.3v caps for a total of 11. The board is now working perfectly! The 3300uF substitution worked fine. The next step would have been 4700uF had the 3300uF caps failed, but they didn't, so all is spiffy!!
This just goes to show that this will happen to much newer hardware, not just older stuff...
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