Santa Fe 'KM' Series often used in Hewlett Packard systems

[Topcat]

Do you have an HP system that has become flaky?!? I was sent a motherboard carrying the brand name of Santa Fe, model 'KM' Series. This is an AMD-based board, and sure enough, it had a bunch of fried caps that appear to be Nichicon imposters!! They are brown with a silver stripe, as Nichicon caps appear. However, they ARE NOT branded Nichicon. Nichicon always puts their name on their caps, these have no name on them. The markings on the cap are:

1500uF
10v
105*
LXV (which appears to be more of a part number, rather than a brand)

If you have an unstable HP, keep your eyes peeled....

[kc8adu]

saw some blue ones like that a while back in a hp.
did you see the rulycons i posted a pic of?
definate rubycon ripoffs.

[Topcat]

I've seen your pics of the Rubycon fakes... As a matter of fact I pulled a few of those 'rulycon' caps out of a BBQ'd Powmax power supply a couple weeks ago... They were hard to spot, they did a good job copying the real Rubycons, but not good enough, I caught it and trashed 'em.

[kc8adu]

powmax...isnt that a brand of firecrackers?
appropriate name for those psu's.
have 3 with the crummy rulycon caps.got these from a guy that called me for onsite service.
3 machines he had new mobos and cpu's installed in were still acting possesed.as soon as i saw the powmax psu's i told him to replace them.
3 junkbox psu's later no more trouble.
these were 4 months old and caps already bad.

[Howie]

I also have a Santa Fe "KM" board from a HP XT933 that would power up but not post. After doing some reading on this site i went back and inspected the board and it has the same brown caps with silver stripes and sure enough 2 of them were swollen so bad they had lifted off the board higher than the surrounding caps.

They are alot of hits online about these boards not posting and id bet most all due to these cheap caps. Looks like a good board to do my 1st cap replacement as i still have the rest of the case and parts.

[gg1978]

I've replaced no less than 3 of these boards at work, due to bad caps on them.. All of them had domed tops, and two of them right in the VRM section were totally lifted off the board.

I have just replaced them with Abit VA-10's microATX boards, since Abit uses all Rubycon or Nichicon caps on their boards now.

[UraBahn]

Santa-Fe = TriGem Korea brand mobo?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but judging from what I gather at http://www.e4allinc.info/dir1/mother...ta/santafe.htm, the 'Santa Fe KM' motherboard you're talking about is actually a TriGem brand motherboard. TriGem boards are commonly used in eMachines, as well as some HP computers. I own an old TriGem Florida-TG board which came out of an old eMachines 500i. It seems to have those brown caps with the silver stripe too (however they seem to be physically okay.) I guess TriGem isn't above the other brands who use crappy caps.

[jaminjason]

I also have a HP XT933 with 2 bad caps, both lifted off the board.Went to several places today try find replacement caps with no luck. Does anyone know where I can purchase these? Thx

[ethernet78]

Try Here, I am lookinf for one too

http://parts.emachines.com/emachines...oduct_Id=68343

[jaminjason]

Think I may have found some, bought 10 for 9.95. Here's the link http://www.computekinc.us/prod01.htm

[MD Willington]

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=463

I had a "Sante-Fe" Trigem that had had chemi-con caps (probably knock offs), but the power mosfets were toast...Trigem is a Korean company IIRC...

http://www.newark.com/product-detail...log/73705.html

http://www.beowulf.org/cgi-bin/swish...x=0&search.y=0

Beowulf clusters having the same problem with LXV's

[jaminjason]

Recieved my cap about 3 days after I ordered, I think I got 20 for around 15.00 including shipping.Well pc is up and running again.I did remove all 10v 1500uf 105c caps even if they were not bad and replaced with the new ones.

Just a little adviceO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON A COLDHEAT SOLDERING IRON.