Been pretty sure there's problems with my Shuttle for more than a year now, but visual inspection has lead nowhere, nearly all the caps are solid type. But now that I've completely dismantled it, I could clearly see three 1800uF radial caps labeled TK. All bulging, and a quick search on those will show many failures in other boards. Will get some caps and swap them out.
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Finally found them! Shuttle SG31G2S
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Re: Finally found them! Shuttle SG31G2S
I just acquired 4 SG31G2's for free. all had problems marked on them, and all had a helping of 1 to all 3 of the 6.3 1800's bulging.
pretty much harvested the capacitors needed off of a donor board full of Rubycons (not good practice, I know.) and recapped them all, didn't bother leaving the non-bulging ones in there. Viola, all 4 are running strong just like that. I left them each on for 3 days straight under heavy load and they haven't had any issues. one even went cross-country already and now has an E8200 and an 8800GT stuffed in it.
Pic Related, you can see here the marked off bulging ones.Last edited by Sudos; 05-06-2013, 05:34 PM.
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Re: Finally found them! Shuttle SG31G2S
You'd think they would stop using bad caps by now. But I guess Shuttle (or whoever is manufacturing their boards) just doesn't want/care to.
That's sad. Bad caps can indeed trash the motherboard - sometimes irreversibly like on my Shuttle SB83 motherboard.
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