I've got an MS-7185 board with obvioulsly bad caps along the CPU side. I know standard procedure is to replace all the caps on the motherboard but before I shell out for a new set of caps I'd like to test the board after replacing just the six caps at the CPU socket and determine whether this is a board I want to use or not. I don't have on hand caps of the exact value (1500uf 6.3v) but have some 1000uf and 1200uf caps that will fit. Would any of them work to test the board before I buy a cap kit for it? I am on an extremely tight budget and am not going to do a full re-cap if it's a board I don't want to use anyway.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
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