Soyo P4VSA bad Sacon Caps/Now problems with booting
Hello there,
Newbie at recapping, did an Alton and an ECS server board with dual P3's. I was doing some upgrading for my friend when he had me basically strip the compter chassis down to the board. While Iwas thumbing around parts, etc., I noticed that out of 9 SACON caps, 2 were bulging. I got in the new caps this weekend. Also, he was having errounoues erros with startup and shutdown. I also tested the PSU with a voltometer, and founf the voltages up and down on accessing devices. I decided to physicaly look into the PSU. WOW! I cannot believe that for nearly 5 years he made it so long on this PSU. One cap had completely blown. Another caps was bulging significally. He bought a new PSU, 300 watt Startech, max output 279 watt as read from the label. Now...after recapping i got some really weird signs going to windows. The computer will POST, after clearing the CMOS. Now after I get into windows with defaults loaded in CMOS, everything runs fine. After I restart windows XP, the Bios goes into error, LONG BEEP, pause, LONG BEEP, pause, and the cycle continues. It does this everytime. Now when I change his PSU with an Enlight 420 watt, not near the problems. I know that with using http://www.journeysystems.com/power_...calculator.php , calcultor for wattage, his is pushing 284 watts. So it helps having the extra PSU laying around.
I ended up replacing 6 of the 9 caps, 1 being that it was so darn difficult removing the ones where the stood. they all came ou going the same direction. it was just easier to remove and start at the beginning. Also the Positive leads from the back side were a BUTT to clean the holes out. This may be all my problems now. After I replaced the caps, and checked all connections, I started up, it posted, acted ike it was going to windows xp, then BAM! starts to restart loop evertime it went to WIN XP. so ok, as it got further on, it would get farther away from booting windows. Kept coming up with KB kernel stack halt errors, then KB debugger using com baud 39864 baud rate 7 in DOS. So ok, lemme, check all the caps again. I did, pain in the butt pulling this board out of a flimsy case, blah...Well i checked the traces, the board and found small amounts of solder, metal pieces on the board, so I cleaned them up while using my magnifying glass to see them well enough to remove. well after ensuring my caps were seated well and solder was clean and filled as much as the hole as possible, I resinstalled the board, and booted with my Enlight PSU. Did well, it failed at startup, so I shutdown, restarted with cleared CMOS, it POSTED with default setting, and booted into windows. Ran windows all day with no problems restarted it several times, no problem. Only problem I am running into now is that, with the Enlight, i can only make so many changes in bios and then it won't restart with the monitor intializing, then i just reset it and it will. But then sometimes with the Startech PSU, everytime I sut down windows xp, it goes into fail mode with LONG BEEP, pause, LONG BEEP, pause..etc.....
Anybody have any suggestions, cause im lost, up the creek, and gonna let him and his wife use my spare for the ebay until I can come with a feasible idea. Could there have been further damage done, or did I accelerate damage with changing the caps?? All i know is that befor eI changed the caps, the startech was working fine or so it seemed, but I'm lost right now. If anybody has some suggestions im all for them!!!
The way the owner of BADCAPS put it was that, if you damaged the foil or tube the lead rest in, it's instant death...i am assuming this isn't instant death but a recurring nightmare!!!!!
HELP!
Newbie at recapping, did an Alton and an ECS server board with dual P3's. I was doing some upgrading for my friend when he had me basically strip the compter chassis down to the board. While Iwas thumbing around parts, etc., I noticed that out of 9 SACON caps, 2 were bulging. I got in the new caps this weekend. Also, he was having errounoues erros with startup and shutdown. I also tested the PSU with a voltometer, and founf the voltages up and down on accessing devices. I decided to physicaly look into the PSU. WOW! I cannot believe that for nearly 5 years he made it so long on this PSU. One cap had completely blown. Another caps was bulging significally. He bought a new PSU, 300 watt Startech, max output 279 watt as read from the label. Now...after recapping i got some really weird signs going to windows. The computer will POST, after clearing the CMOS. Now after I get into windows with defaults loaded in CMOS, everything runs fine. After I restart windows XP, the Bios goes into error, LONG BEEP, pause, LONG BEEP, pause, and the cycle continues. It does this everytime. Now when I change his PSU with an Enlight 420 watt, not near the problems. I know that with using http://www.journeysystems.com/power_...calculator.php , calcultor for wattage, his is pushing 284 watts. So it helps having the extra PSU laying around.
I ended up replacing 6 of the 9 caps, 1 being that it was so darn difficult removing the ones where the stood. they all came ou going the same direction. it was just easier to remove and start at the beginning. Also the Positive leads from the back side were a BUTT to clean the holes out. This may be all my problems now. After I replaced the caps, and checked all connections, I started up, it posted, acted ike it was going to windows xp, then BAM! starts to restart loop evertime it went to WIN XP. so ok, as it got further on, it would get farther away from booting windows. Kept coming up with KB kernel stack halt errors, then KB debugger using com baud 39864 baud rate 7 in DOS. So ok, lemme, check all the caps again. I did, pain in the butt pulling this board out of a flimsy case, blah...Well i checked the traces, the board and found small amounts of solder, metal pieces on the board, so I cleaned them up while using my magnifying glass to see them well enough to remove. well after ensuring my caps were seated well and solder was clean and filled as much as the hole as possible, I resinstalled the board, and booted with my Enlight PSU. Did well, it failed at startup, so I shutdown, restarted with cleared CMOS, it POSTED with default setting, and booted into windows. Ran windows all day with no problems restarted it several times, no problem. Only problem I am running into now is that, with the Enlight, i can only make so many changes in bios and then it won't restart with the monitor intializing, then i just reset it and it will. But then sometimes with the Startech PSU, everytime I sut down windows xp, it goes into fail mode with LONG BEEP, pause, LONG BEEP, pause..etc.....
Anybody have any suggestions, cause im lost, up the creek, and gonna let him and his wife use my spare for the ebay until I can come with a feasible idea. Could there have been further damage done, or did I accelerate damage with changing the caps?? All i know is that befor eI changed the caps, the startech was working fine or so it seemed, but I'm lost right now. If anybody has some suggestions im all for them!!!
The way the owner of BADCAPS put it was that, if you damaged the foil or tube the lead rest in, it's instant death...i am assuming this isn't instant death but a recurring nightmare!!!!!
HELP!
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