SL-75DRV5 hell

[solteksuks]

Hello, I have a Soltek SL-75DRV5 mobo with bad caps and was wondering if I could get a bit of guidance. You see I've been a rather bad boy and one year ago when my USB devices stopped working, I ignored it. Last week, I started to get HD failure errors on boot. If I let the machine warm up a bit though it would boot normally, however, now the floppy drive does not work at ALL. After some memtest86, HD testing and searching around to see what was wrong I found the bad cap issue and opened up the case. Whadda ya know virtually all large caps have burst, belching thier brown muck all over!! As I am not dexterous enough to trust myself with recapping, I will probably just end up sending it in. But I would like to know if anyone has seen mobos in this bad of shape before, USB / floppy whatever etc. not working and if this means I've really blown the device controllers on the board or if there is hope that they may be reincarnated upon recapping. So glad I found this place, many thanks indeed for any responses in advance!

[willawake]

Re: SL-75DRV5 hell

But I would like to know if anyone has seen mobos in this bad of shape before, USB / floppy whatever etc. not working and if this means I've really blown the device controllers on the board or if there is hope that they may be reincarnated upon recapping.

yup

if it still posts there is a good chance it will be fine after recapping

[solteksuks]

Re: SL-75DRV5 hell

HmmMmm! That's surprising to hear. good! I just sent a request for repair on the main page. Fingers and toes crossed!

[gonzo0815]

Re: SL-75DRV5 hell

Well, those errors are caused by those heavy noise generated by the vrm if the caps are bad. And of course, the processor and the memory can`t work with too mutch noise in the supply line. This will cause a slow or fast corruption of the hdd data, but neither the hdd nor the controler had caused that. As long as no Mosfet is blown up on the vrm, mmost boards are working better than new with good caps.

[lfuller1]

Re: SL-75DRV5 hell

I just replaced 10 - 2200uF 6.3 v caps on this motherboard for a colleague. All 10 of them had bulged at the top and had leaked brown stuff at the top. Computer was experiences random reboots and lockups..

The board runs like a charm now...But will will watch the other 1000uf caps, also by GSC, that have not shown signs of failure, at least yet...

LF
Oswego, NY

[Tom41]

Re: SL-75DRV5 hell

'Before' and 'After' photos of the recap job would be good. Did you take photos?

I had a couple of PCs at work with GSC caps, and most of them were either bulged or leaking. On one PC, it kept rebooting itself, occasionally doing DISK BOOT FAILURE errors, and all kinds of problems. The other one, even though the caps were in a worse state, had no problems whatsoever! Can't be long until it dies though

[Sudum Gumudu]

Re: SL-75DRV5 hell

Recapped one about a month ago. All six 2200 uF around the CPU and five 1000 uF surrounding the memory slots were leaking. The board worked fine however. Did it anyway, just to be safe, all 33 caps 470uF and higher.
Works fine now. I took no pictures of it though.