As part of replacing parts in my mom's computer I was shocked to see how bad the caps on this board had exploded. I just wanted to let everybody know that the cap maker Wendell is BAD. I read the bad caps thread about this being a known bad company but I wanted to post detailed information on what caps I found to be "bad".
1000 uf 6.3v 105c and the 1500 uf 6.3v 105c are leaking electrolyte on the board, most are completely shot, some look fine but upon further inspection are blown out at the bottom. There are smaller caps marked Wendell but they do not appear to have any damage, and at this point I'm unsure if I want to replace them or not. As a side note I noticed that all the larger caps coated in green blew and all the smaller caps coated in black are fine. Not sure if this is relevant or not, but it seems strange.
I had to replace out this Soyo board with another board mainly due to overheating, the 2000+ XP cpu was always reported as having a 155F reading in bios, and Windows XP started to become unstable.
I do need some questions answered if anybody is reading, there are 2200uf 6.3v caps marked SACON also on the board, and one of them has blown but the others look to be in good operational order, I'm just wondering is this a random blowout or should I suspect these caps are bad and replace them? I do want to put this board back into operating shape, cause before the caps started blowing this was a good performing board.
1000 uf 6.3v 105c and the 1500 uf 6.3v 105c are leaking electrolyte on the board, most are completely shot, some look fine but upon further inspection are blown out at the bottom. There are smaller caps marked Wendell but they do not appear to have any damage, and at this point I'm unsure if I want to replace them or not. As a side note I noticed that all the larger caps coated in green blew and all the smaller caps coated in black are fine. Not sure if this is relevant or not, but it seems strange.
I had to replace out this Soyo board with another board mainly due to overheating, the 2000+ XP cpu was always reported as having a 155F reading in bios, and Windows XP started to become unstable.
I do need some questions answered if anybody is reading, there are 2200uf 6.3v caps marked SACON also on the board, and one of them has blown but the others look to be in good operational order, I'm just wondering is this a random blowout or should I suspect these caps are bad and replace them? I do want to put this board back into operating shape, cause before the caps started blowing this was a good performing board.
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