Abit AB-ZM6

[billse]

Abit AB-ZM6

This boards can handle only celeron cpus (66,100) FSB
max as of final bios "SU" celeron 600, 2000-09-05
max RAM 256MB using 3 dimm slot.

[History]
Someone wanted to know this.
They were bought from a "DOT COM" bankruptcy around 2000-2001, 15-20 computers mostly abit boards, not totally sure of how many, a few were stolen.
The computers were used in the "LAB" mostly and doesn't contain very important data, people surf the net and other tasks.

Currently I got 3 boards from machines that died, there might be more on the way, for sure there is 1 more that is toast, and a few others that show sign's (buldging caps, etc)

Most of the buldging ones are near the atx power supply input, and the group or 3 shown in one of the pictures.

Capacitor's above 1000uf

(1) 6 - 1000uf 6.3V 8mm X 12mm Jackcon Green/Gold writing
(2) 16 - 1000uf 10V 8mm X 15mm Jackcon Black/Gold writing
(3) 2 - 1500uf 6.3V 8mm X 16mm Tayeh Green/Gold writing

Location on board
(1) EC5-8, EC19,EC21
(2) EC1,2, EC11-18, EC20, EC22, EC23-25 and C32
(3) EC3,4

[Pictures]
sorry kinda low quality took them with a web cam.



Are these boards even worth replacing, 22 - 1000uf capacitors and 2 1500uf?

Bill

Sidenote: I'll probably be getting more stuff, like lots of dead generic power supplies and two other boards that are probably not mentioned
a shuttle spacewalker 591P, and gigabyte GA-7VAX REV 1.1.

[linuxguru]

Re: Abit AB-ZM6

It depends - is the chipset a 440BX, ZX or i815? I'd probably recap them all and put them back in service as file-servers or routers if they're 440BX.

[jarobi]

Re: Abit AB-ZM6

Zx.

[Rainbow]

Re: Abit AB-ZM6

Chipset is i440ZX - the same as BX except number of memory banks and PCI slots is limited. You should be able to have 512MB RAM by using two 16-chip 256MB modules.
IIRC, these boards are intented only for Mendocino Celeron CPUs. But they can be easily modified to work with Coppermine too (by adding one wire to the bottom of CPU socket) - so you can use Coppermine Celerons and even PIIIs with 100MHz FSB.
I'd fix em all and then sell

[kc8adu]

Re: Abit AB-ZM6

if nothing else they are good practice boards.call it cheap education/experience.you can then put the survivers back in service.

[jarobi]

Re: Abit AB-ZM6

There's some great advice. I'd like to get a few boxes of DOA boards to hone my soldering skills.

[Newbie2]

Re: Abit AB-ZM6

billse, if you want cheap replacements then e-mail Jackcon about these bad Jackcon caps and then if Jackcon is nice, they will send you replacement caps. Topcat tried this, got his caps when he wasn't expecting in the mail, and used them. willawake has PM'd him about this a long time ago and he said a few caps that Jackcon sent him failed, and some didn't. Jackcon's e-mail address is jackcon@ms14.hinet.net

If you want quality replacements, one place you can buy caps in Canada is Digikey.

[MD Willington]

Re: Abit AB-ZM6

Jackon sent caps to me as well...

MD