One of my dad's friend's friend has a Dell Inspiron 531 with asus m2n61-ax mobo. He only had it maybe a year and half and the thing abruptly died in operation with the computer locking up and the screen flickering to black. I'm still trying to find out if the thing ever has had problems with BSOD or spontaneous rebooting. The motherboard won't post, no bios beep codes. I've remove everything down to the processor and still no beeps codes or anything.
edit: got in contact with person, They said the computer loved to BSOD often and reboot once in a while. I'm pretty confident that it's bad caps.
Visual inspection of the board reveals nothing of interest.
So I'm wondering if this is a case of bad caps?
Caps:
Around the processor and memory dimms
5x Panasonic FL series 1800uf 6.3
8x UCC KZG 1500uf 6.3
5x UCC KZG 1000uf 16v
Around PCI-e PCI slots
10x UCC KZE 330 6.3v *1 at the dimm, 2 at USB and 1 at cpu socket
Misc/ Generally around the board
7x Rubycon MBZ 820uf 6.3v
1x Panasonic 470 uF 16v
abunch of smaller caps less then 100uf around the audio ports.
I suspect the KZG the most since they are known to fail without physical anomalies.
Stuck between whether to replace the motherboard or recap it.
Either way it's a win/win for me, if I replace the board, I get to keep this one, and I'll just recap it anyways and hope.
Ideas? or is it something more? recap or no?
edit: got in contact with person, They said the computer loved to BSOD often and reboot once in a while. I'm pretty confident that it's bad caps.
Visual inspection of the board reveals nothing of interest.
So I'm wondering if this is a case of bad caps?
Caps:
Around the processor and memory dimms
5x Panasonic FL series 1800uf 6.3
8x UCC KZG 1500uf 6.3
5x UCC KZG 1000uf 16v
Around PCI-e PCI slots
10x UCC KZE 330 6.3v *1 at the dimm, 2 at USB and 1 at cpu socket
Misc/ Generally around the board
7x Rubycon MBZ 820uf 6.3v
1x Panasonic 470 uF 16v
abunch of smaller caps less then 100uf around the audio ports.
I suspect the KZG the most since they are known to fail without physical anomalies.
Stuck between whether to replace the motherboard or recap it.
Either way it's a win/win for me, if I replace the board, I get to keep this one, and I'll just recap it anyways and hope.
Ideas? or is it something more? recap or no?
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