I have an SM 370DLI board I got off eBay which has been unstable since I bought it. The board was manufactured in week 1 2001... and didn't look used when I received it.
I improved stability greatly by replacing the caps around the DIMM slots with decent low ESR caps even though the caps I replaced had no bulges etc. The unit is now stable in the short term (POSTs/boots), but is still unstable on extended running and particularly with disk activity.
All of the caps were Sanyo's, which folks generally regard as excellent, so it surprised me when I got more stability when I replaced the caps around the DIMM slots.
Just wondering if it's worth replacing more caps? Would you start at the VRM or the remainder of the board? Anyone seen a problem like this with all Sanyo caps, no bulging/wear and yet bad??
Thanks in advance,
Paul
I improved stability greatly by replacing the caps around the DIMM slots with decent low ESR caps even though the caps I replaced had no bulges etc. The unit is now stable in the short term (POSTs/boots), but is still unstable on extended running and particularly with disk activity.
All of the caps were Sanyo's, which folks generally regard as excellent, so it surprised me when I got more stability when I replaced the caps around the DIMM slots.
Just wondering if it's worth replacing more caps? Would you start at the VRM or the remainder of the board? Anyone seen a problem like this with all Sanyo caps, no bulging/wear and yet bad??
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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