I have two of these boards and both of them have same kind of symptoms. First one has clearly bad capacitors and I am planning to try to repair it later and now focus on the other one which seems to have good capacitors but still is unstable.
I don't have enough capacitors so that I could replace all 1800uf / 6.3v OST caps which according to this forum usually go bad on these boards and they indeed are the faulty ones on the another board I mentioned. I have now changed all but two caps near the CPU socket and the board will not usually boot into Ubuntu desktop, it hangs after loading drivers or shortly after the Ubuntu-logo has appeared. At first, when I replaced only one cap which was reflecting light differently from the others (not bulging) it booted succesfully into Ubuntu and stayed on until I shut it down. But then after couple tests it started to show those same symptoms again, crash on various stages.
So could it be that these two OST caps which were left are the reason or is there something bigger which is too much work to fix? What do you think?
I don't have enough capacitors so that I could replace all 1800uf / 6.3v OST caps which according to this forum usually go bad on these boards and they indeed are the faulty ones on the another board I mentioned. I have now changed all but two caps near the CPU socket and the board will not usually boot into Ubuntu desktop, it hangs after loading drivers or shortly after the Ubuntu-logo has appeared. At first, when I replaced only one cap which was reflecting light differently from the others (not bulging) it booted succesfully into Ubuntu and stayed on until I shut it down. But then after couple tests it started to show those same symptoms again, crash on various stages.
So could it be that these two OST caps which were left are the reason or is there something bigger which is too much work to fix? What do you think?
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