I bought this board cheaply from a guy who sold it as defect. He told me it posted, but was unstable.
The board had four bad GSC caps (3300uF 6,3V), four still good Choyo caps (1200uF 6,3V) and 11 small 330 uF Gluxon caps. I replaced only the GCS and Choyo ones. I didn't mind the Gluxons as they were of such small capacitance.
As replacement I coulnd't find any fitting caps to buy, so I replaced the four GSC ones with Sanyo 3900uF 6,3V caps found in an old Dell BX board, and the four Choyo ones with a three Sanyos and one Rubycon cap (both 1500uF 6,3V) from a noisy MSI Nforce 2 board I wrote about here a while ago: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2132
I didn't manage/care to try to fix it, so I took the caps I needed from it, and trashed it.
Is taking caps from an old board like this OK? I remember reading posts from some of you where you state that this is a bad idea. Why is that?
Sorry if the pics aren't very good, the recap pic only shows a part of the board. I didn't mind taking more pics as my old lousy camera refuses to work properly sometimes.
Anyway, the board seems to be running fine after some testing with a 1300 tualatin celeron, so I consider the board stable!
The board had four bad GSC caps (3300uF 6,3V), four still good Choyo caps (1200uF 6,3V) and 11 small 330 uF Gluxon caps. I replaced only the GCS and Choyo ones. I didn't mind the Gluxons as they were of such small capacitance.
As replacement I coulnd't find any fitting caps to buy, so I replaced the four GSC ones with Sanyo 3900uF 6,3V caps found in an old Dell BX board, and the four Choyo ones with a three Sanyos and one Rubycon cap (both 1500uF 6,3V) from a noisy MSI Nforce 2 board I wrote about here a while ago: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2132
I didn't manage/care to try to fix it, so I took the caps I needed from it, and trashed it.
Is taking caps from an old board like this OK? I remember reading posts from some of you where you state that this is a bad idea. Why is that?
Sorry if the pics aren't very good, the recap pic only shows a part of the board. I didn't mind taking more pics as my old lousy camera refuses to work properly sometimes.
Anyway, the board seems to be running fine after some testing with a 1300 tualatin celeron, so I consider the board stable!
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