Hi
A friend recently upgraded his motherboard. His old MB was a Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 socket 939. The old board was regularly causing BSODs in windows XP and the on board video was also very grainy with lines showing on the monitor.
As I had helped in the installation of his new build PC he let me have the old board, cpu, memory hd and the old case and power supply.
On looking at the old Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 it was quite obvious that the board suffered from bad caps. The board had five 3300uf capacitors near the CPU heat sink and two 1000uf capacitors elsewhere on the board which were bulging.
I had not done a motherboard re-cap before so I decided to give this board a go. I was not too concerned if things went wrong as I just wanted to have a go and learn.
This site has been very educational. I found more information on another site
http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/e.../mbbadcap.html
This person had near identical problems and the same capacitor failure to which he successfully got this motherboard working.
On my first attempt I was using a 20W soldering iron but this was just not good for heating and removing the old caps. I then took a break and went to the faq stickys on this site.
After further reading i got my 60W soldering iron out and applied more solder and ensured the tip of my iron was clean. Eventually I had success and the old capacitors came out. I then assumed that cleaning the holes would also be a challenge but my solder sucker from ebay managed this part of the job quite easily. The hardest part of the job was removing the capacitors. I was scared that the 60W iron might have been to hot and cause damage to the board. It seems however now that this iron was ideal for this part of the job.
I had some Panasonic NHG series capacitors of the same uf and voltage value. I know that many people here don't recommend the NHG series for motherboard re-caps as this is a general purpose capacitor. I however used the NHG series that I had. (The faq sticky on this site recommends practising soldering techniques on a trash board, This was my trash board). I used these panasonic caps as replacement.
I was amazed when powering up this motherboard that it powered up and went straight into the XP installation without any problems. I thought after soldering the Panasonic NHG series that this choice of capacitor may provide problems. For now (4 days) the motherboard runs very fast with no grainy video and certainly no BSODS what so ever.
I only have one problem with this MB now. When shutting down from XP the motherboard shuts down but the green power LED remains on. I then have to remove the power from the wall socket and wait for the LED to go off. I can then plug the power socket back in and the motherboard will run great until I shutdown again.
I have the latest bios from Biostars web site.
I have looked in the bios power, wakeup and other settings but everything seems correct I have tried two different PSU's to eliminate the power supply. I have tried different ram and CPU. I have even removed the hard disk and when you press the off button the same symptoms are there eliminating the OS. Apart from this little problem everything works great. I have been told that this problem started about six months ago so I am sure it's not related to the caps that I have replaced.
Does anyone have any suggestions or advice on this problem? Like I said apart from this minor problem the motherboard runs great. If I can resolve this problem then I am going to get some more practice with a total recap on this board with some good quality rubys to improve my re-cap techniques further.
Many thanks
Kind regards
bp1
A friend recently upgraded his motherboard. His old MB was a Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 socket 939. The old board was regularly causing BSODs in windows XP and the on board video was also very grainy with lines showing on the monitor.
As I had helped in the installation of his new build PC he let me have the old board, cpu, memory hd and the old case and power supply.
On looking at the old Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 it was quite obvious that the board suffered from bad caps. The board had five 3300uf capacitors near the CPU heat sink and two 1000uf capacitors elsewhere on the board which were bulging.
I had not done a motherboard re-cap before so I decided to give this board a go. I was not too concerned if things went wrong as I just wanted to have a go and learn.
This site has been very educational. I found more information on another site
http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/e.../mbbadcap.html
This person had near identical problems and the same capacitor failure to which he successfully got this motherboard working.
On my first attempt I was using a 20W soldering iron but this was just not good for heating and removing the old caps. I then took a break and went to the faq stickys on this site.
After further reading i got my 60W soldering iron out and applied more solder and ensured the tip of my iron was clean. Eventually I had success and the old capacitors came out. I then assumed that cleaning the holes would also be a challenge but my solder sucker from ebay managed this part of the job quite easily. The hardest part of the job was removing the capacitors. I was scared that the 60W iron might have been to hot and cause damage to the board. It seems however now that this iron was ideal for this part of the job.
I had some Panasonic NHG series capacitors of the same uf and voltage value. I know that many people here don't recommend the NHG series for motherboard re-caps as this is a general purpose capacitor. I however used the NHG series that I had. (The faq sticky on this site recommends practising soldering techniques on a trash board, This was my trash board). I used these panasonic caps as replacement.
I was amazed when powering up this motherboard that it powered up and went straight into the XP installation without any problems. I thought after soldering the Panasonic NHG series that this choice of capacitor may provide problems. For now (4 days) the motherboard runs very fast with no grainy video and certainly no BSODS what so ever.
I only have one problem with this MB now. When shutting down from XP the motherboard shuts down but the green power LED remains on. I then have to remove the power from the wall socket and wait for the LED to go off. I can then plug the power socket back in and the motherboard will run great until I shutdown again.
I have the latest bios from Biostars web site.
I have looked in the bios power, wakeup and other settings but everything seems correct I have tried two different PSU's to eliminate the power supply. I have tried different ram and CPU. I have even removed the hard disk and when you press the off button the same symptoms are there eliminating the OS. Apart from this little problem everything works great. I have been told that this problem started about six months ago so I am sure it's not related to the caps that I have replaced.
Does anyone have any suggestions or advice on this problem? Like I said apart from this minor problem the motherboard runs great. If I can resolve this problem then I am going to get some more practice with a total recap on this board with some good quality rubys to improve my re-cap techniques further.
Many thanks
Kind regards
bp1
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