Two Gigabyte boards coming into the shop this week!
I have two Gigabyte Socket A boards, a GA-7ZMMH (KM133A chipset) and a GA-7VRXP (KT333 chipset) coming in this week, both have the GSC cap plague.
The KM133A board is finnicky, it locks up and spontaneously reboots.... classic bad cap behavior. I ain't blaming Windows 98 on this one!
The KT333 board is still stable, but that's probably due to the two Rubycons I put in two years ago!
Now the two GSCs that were good two years ago have let loose. If I had a couple more caps that day, they would have been changed out anyway but the customer needed his machine up the same day. I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did..... 5 years for a GSC is incredible!
I changed my recapping method some time ago to the following method:
If just ONE of a given type of cap fails, ALL of the caps of that type get changed. The entire VRM section gets swapped out. Fuhjyyu, Chissi, Wendell, GSC, Tayeh and Lelon get changed out automatically..... as do the counterfeit brands. G-Luxon often sees the bin as well.
Salvage caps are screened through the list of bad caps, bad brands go in the dumpster. Speaking of salvage caps; I have a dead laptop board full of Oscons!
I have SP series, six 820mfd 4V, two 220mfd 6.3V, 330mfd 4V, and two 47mfd 25V.
I also have a dead MSI board with six 4700mfd 6.3V Nichicon HD series caps. Oddly enough, the board also has Tayeh caps elsewhere..... yuck!
The KM133A board is finnicky, it locks up and spontaneously reboots.... classic bad cap behavior. I ain't blaming Windows 98 on this one!
The KT333 board is still stable, but that's probably due to the two Rubycons I put in two years ago!
Now the two GSCs that were good two years ago have let loose. If I had a couple more caps that day, they would have been changed out anyway but the customer needed his machine up the same day. I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did..... 5 years for a GSC is incredible!I changed my recapping method some time ago to the following method:
If just ONE of a given type of cap fails, ALL of the caps of that type get changed. The entire VRM section gets swapped out. Fuhjyyu, Chissi, Wendell, GSC, Tayeh and Lelon get changed out automatically..... as do the counterfeit brands. G-Luxon often sees the bin as well.
Salvage caps are screened through the list of bad caps, bad brands go in the dumpster. Speaking of salvage caps; I have a dead laptop board full of Oscons!
I have SP series, six 820mfd 4V, two 220mfd 6.3V, 330mfd 4V, and two 47mfd 25V. I also have a dead MSI board with six 4700mfd 6.3V Nichicon HD series caps. Oddly enough, the board also has Tayeh caps elsewhere..... yuck!
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