Hello Everyone,
I went out shopping today at my local computer shop and I purchased a motherboard with badcaps. The owner of the store decided to sell the motherboard to me for $10 which was a pretty good deal for a socket 478 motherboard with an Intel 845GV chipset.... even though it was working properly.
On the motherboard it says Imperial_GL_VE 20020629 and it still posts with my Celeron 2GHz CPU. Upon bootup, it comes up with the HP Boot image and it actually finishes POST process so that means the MOSFETs are still OK and other components (apart from caps) are still OK.
I only have one problem now and that is the recapping process. Right now I have a lot of Hitano 1500uf 10V 10mm LOW ESR caps, the caps are a little big but i guess they will fit because theres a 1.5mm gap in between each cap. The caps currently on the board are TMS 1500uf 6.3V 8mm. There are also some Sam Young and RM caps on the board.... Do I need to replace them also even though they havent bulged or leaked .... yet. There are also a few Rubycon MBZ caps on the board and they all appear good.
Is there any way that I can find out what HP computer system this motherboard came out of??.
Thanks.
I went out shopping today at my local computer shop and I purchased a motherboard with badcaps. The owner of the store decided to sell the motherboard to me for $10 which was a pretty good deal for a socket 478 motherboard with an Intel 845GV chipset.... even though it was working properly.
On the motherboard it says Imperial_GL_VE 20020629 and it still posts with my Celeron 2GHz CPU. Upon bootup, it comes up with the HP Boot image and it actually finishes POST process so that means the MOSFETs are still OK and other components (apart from caps) are still OK.
I only have one problem now and that is the recapping process. Right now I have a lot of Hitano 1500uf 10V 10mm LOW ESR caps, the caps are a little big but i guess they will fit because theres a 1.5mm gap in between each cap. The caps currently on the board are TMS 1500uf 6.3V 8mm. There are also some Sam Young and RM caps on the board.... Do I need to replace them also even though they havent bulged or leaked .... yet. There are also a few Rubycon MBZ caps on the board and they all appear good.
Is there any way that I can find out what HP computer system this motherboard came out of??.
Thanks.
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