Hi Folks,
A friend has passed me a lemon, and I'm undecided whether to ditch it for an exact new board from Ebay , replace the bad caps or a complete recap. The board has mostly Chemicon KZG's and a few small Ruby's. There are 2 bulging caps 6.3v/820uf between the ATX conn. and the ram slots, the only other is a single 6.3v/3300uf near the northbridge. The junk Bestec also has a bad cap on one of the outputs, so it looks like the cause. He bought used so who knows for sure when the caps all went bad. A new PSU is on the way since I will not waste my time with a Bestec. Searching the forums here it seems the KZG's are not reliable. But how so? What makes them unreliable?
If a full recap is recommended, I've used Panasonic FC and Nichicon HM & HE in the past, are they still on the good list?
Here's a list of caps above 680uf :
(1) KZG 3300/6.3 - bulging
(4) KZG 1000/16v
(15)KZG 820/6.3 - 2 bulging
(5) 6Z1 821/2.5 - poly , red lettering ..sorry can't tell brand , these are on the output for the cpu vrm looks like.
BTW the pc will POST although sometimes it wont , so I feel it's fixable.
Your thoughts ?
TIA
A friend has passed me a lemon, and I'm undecided whether to ditch it for an exact new board from Ebay , replace the bad caps or a complete recap. The board has mostly Chemicon KZG's and a few small Ruby's. There are 2 bulging caps 6.3v/820uf between the ATX conn. and the ram slots, the only other is a single 6.3v/3300uf near the northbridge. The junk Bestec also has a bad cap on one of the outputs, so it looks like the cause. He bought used so who knows for sure when the caps all went bad. A new PSU is on the way since I will not waste my time with a Bestec. Searching the forums here it seems the KZG's are not reliable. But how so? What makes them unreliable?
If a full recap is recommended, I've used Panasonic FC and Nichicon HM & HE in the past, are they still on the good list?
Here's a list of caps above 680uf :
(1) KZG 3300/6.3 - bulging
(4) KZG 1000/16v
(15)KZG 820/6.3 - 2 bulging
(5) 6Z1 821/2.5 - poly , red lettering ..sorry can't tell brand , these are on the output for the cpu vrm looks like.
BTW the pc will POST although sometimes it wont , so I feel it's fixable.
Your thoughts ?
TIA
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