A few weeks ago I changed some of the memory modules from 1/2 gig to 1gigs. To now have 3 gigs of ram. Well, now the system would occasionally freeze. Bad new memory? Maybe some SW I've been running doesn't play nice in the system? Well, I decided to pull the new memory and replace it with the old ones. But I noticed a pair of green "Ltec" 820uF 6.3v caps had bulging tops. Right near the memory. Got out the tools and soldering iron, and found a couple of 1000uF 10v caps 105C as replacements. Noted which circuit board hole gets the negative side. Put the system back together and it still works. Though it's too early to declare success, as the freezes happened every several days... I did check the old caps with a cap meter, they measured less than 0.1uF. Looking closely at the bulged tops I can see a crack.
All the other caps look fine, no bulges or leaking crap (at least I can't see it if there is any).
I bought this PC new in 2005.
All the other caps look fine, no bulges or leaking crap (at least I can't see it if there is any).
I bought this PC new in 2005.
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