After experiencing board instability for about 6mo and coming to this forum I decided to recap my MB. Since August I've been looking over the wealth of info here which helped me complete the project and get my board working like a rock again! Never knew anything about the cap problem until I found a couple of bad ones a couple of years ago and then things got unstable. I've attached a list that I made of every cap on my board and what I replaced them with. Hope this helps others that have questions regarding this board. I noticed that some of my original values per the cap physical size most likely don't exist seeing how I bought the board and built the PC in 2001. But I found reading a lot of specs that the design and electrolyte of today is definately superior to what was around in 2001. I used the ESR-micro V4 meter and can't reccommend it enough. Did in-circuit and out of circuit measrements. Found 2 of the 820uf/6.3V "post VRM" caps bad when removed from circuit. One measured "no capacitance value" and another leaked onto the board as I removed it. All of the smaller caps had 2X the ESR value of the new replacements. Also replaced my old 450W Allied PS with the OCZ 500W Mod Stream PRO. It draws 50W less power from the power line now. I also moved to a 3 heatpipe cooler from Vantec VAF9225 and new retention bracket w/ backbrace which keeps the temp under 41 deg C on the 2.8GHz P4 Northwoods. Ran unit as DAW for over 8 years until the instability came. Thanks again especially to the forum leaders!
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Re: D865PERL Recap with Thanks to this Forum!
^ yo, nice... and welcome!!!.... im glad u found helpful info in here, and (imo) ur contribution must help at least someone else... see, thats how i see it, i also like to think that the threads ive made asking for help on a specific mobo have got to help someone else out there too
Kudos!
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Re: D865PERL Recap with Thanks to this Forum!
P4 2.8C cannot handle 1080 anymore. I discovered that when I tried on 1080 resolution on youtube.
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Re: D865PERL Recap with Thanks to this Forum!
wouldnt that be down to the gpu/gfx card?
try *not* using vista or "7" incase it's a load of drm crap causing slowdowns.Comment
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Re: D865PERL Recap with Thanks to this Forum!
Youtube uses Flash Player which requires a lot more resources. For example, I can run a 720p WMV video just fine on a 2.8GHz P4 and CPU utilization is only around 40-70%. 720p video in Youtube, however, utilizes CPU at 100% all the time and yet still stutters quite often. Some videos are impossible to watch.Originally posted by Wizard View PostComment
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Re: D865PERL Recap with Thanks to this Forum!
Youtube has been giving me problems in Firefox, so I loaded Chrome which allows HTML5 player instead of Flash. Limited resolution though, only 360!Originally posted by momaka View PostComment
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