Hey!
Three GX270
ALL with failed caps
All got recapped by me
all not working correctly...
First board: ALL caps in the row behind the heatsink leaking. 3 other caps leaking.
Replaced them all. -> Board would not turn on. Turns out if one of the caps was installed, that rail shorted. Hooked it up using wires -> Works not!
Tedious hours of testing later -- broken trace found, fixed and hey presto: Works! A nice 3.2GHZ HT even.
But then, surprise surprise: The southbridge cooked itself. Why? I don't know. The caps are all good though.
==> FAIL, board complete trash, scrapped for parts (got my caps back, CPU too and also:the beeper, jumpers, battery socket, I use those to make small devices with )
Second board: 4 bad caps in the row, 2 caps near RAM slot, 1 cap near USB connectors.
Replaced them. -> Board would turn on fine! But then, I tried connecting a keyboard. It would not accept any keyboard. DARN THIS FUCKING THING
==> FAIL, board trashed for parts CPU etc.
Third board: Actually, only three bad caps on this one.
Replaced them. -> Board turns on! God I'm so happy. Accepts keyboard and everything and the southbridge is not cooking itself anytime soon it seems!
Oh well, lets turn it off and get some components to put inside. Hold on let me get this hard disk, yeah thats good it's installed there and hooked up. Let me get that XP CD out of my drawer here, alright, and let's turn this sucker on and get it to work!
Oh I am ever too optimistic. Of course it does not work how I expected. Plugged it in and: Fans start running and a constant yellow LED on the button. Aw crap. Let's google what that means.
Power issue? Oh it must be that I accidentally dropped some metal in it. Wait no it's completely clean. What the heck?
Took it out for another bench test. What the heck. It works?
Oh wait, no it only works some times. Oh, I get it so you're teasing me, bastard! Oh well, as soon as it turned on I proceeded with an XP install. No issues AT ALL there. Shut it down to burn a CD with drivers but oops. TURN ON YOU PIECE OF SHIT.
Ah there we go. Well but first I'm going to do some testing. Ah yes there we go Prime95. Fan goes faster now, so that's working. Went to my brother's place to have some lunch and play some video games. Came back -- yeah it's still running just fine. Tried some FurMark to test the GFX card (I put in a low profile GF6200 -- Oh wow, not even one frame per second. But hey, it's not crashing.
So I got ~6 hours of Prime95 and ~3 Hours of Furmark and nothing crashed.
Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on with this? It works just fine but only sometimes it turns on
cheers!
Three GX270
ALL with failed caps
All got recapped by me
all not working correctly...
First board: ALL caps in the row behind the heatsink leaking. 3 other caps leaking.
Replaced them all. -> Board would not turn on. Turns out if one of the caps was installed, that rail shorted. Hooked it up using wires -> Works not!
Tedious hours of testing later -- broken trace found, fixed and hey presto: Works! A nice 3.2GHZ HT even.
But then, surprise surprise: The southbridge cooked itself. Why? I don't know. The caps are all good though.
==> FAIL, board complete trash, scrapped for parts (got my caps back, CPU too and also:the beeper, jumpers, battery socket, I use those to make small devices with )
Second board: 4 bad caps in the row, 2 caps near RAM slot, 1 cap near USB connectors.
Replaced them. -> Board would turn on fine! But then, I tried connecting a keyboard. It would not accept any keyboard. DARN THIS FUCKING THING
==> FAIL, board trashed for parts CPU etc.
Third board: Actually, only three bad caps on this one.
Replaced them. -> Board turns on! God I'm so happy. Accepts keyboard and everything and the southbridge is not cooking itself anytime soon it seems!
Oh well, lets turn it off and get some components to put inside. Hold on let me get this hard disk, yeah thats good it's installed there and hooked up. Let me get that XP CD out of my drawer here, alright, and let's turn this sucker on and get it to work!
Oh I am ever too optimistic. Of course it does not work how I expected. Plugged it in and: Fans start running and a constant yellow LED on the button. Aw crap. Let's google what that means.
Power issue? Oh it must be that I accidentally dropped some metal in it. Wait no it's completely clean. What the heck?
Took it out for another bench test. What the heck. It works?
Oh wait, no it only works some times. Oh, I get it so you're teasing me, bastard! Oh well, as soon as it turned on I proceeded with an XP install. No issues AT ALL there. Shut it down to burn a CD with drivers but oops. TURN ON YOU PIECE OF SHIT.
Ah there we go. Well but first I'm going to do some testing. Ah yes there we go Prime95. Fan goes faster now, so that's working. Went to my brother's place to have some lunch and play some video games. Came back -- yeah it's still running just fine. Tried some FurMark to test the GFX card (I put in a low profile GF6200 -- Oh wow, not even one frame per second. But hey, it's not crashing.
So I got ~6 hours of Prime95 and ~3 Hours of Furmark and nothing crashed.
Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on with this? It works just fine but only sometimes it turns on
cheers!
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