After years of throwing bad boards away I finally got tired of wasting otherwise decent boards due to bad caps. Due to the great information on this site I've revived my first two dead boards.
An EP-8RDA and a EP-8RGMI. The 8RGMI had a single 470u out by the memory that kept it from booting and was an easy fix. The 8RDA had 4 1500/6.3 and 4 1000/6.3 teapo (t-blows) obviously out on it. My current fix works (passes memtest and boots) but is only temporary, as I scavanged other teapos of a board that had been cracked in two before the caps had time to go out.
I have a few hundred UCC KZEs of different sizes on order now, and a stack of mainboards waiting to be rejuvenated. Hopefully I can dig up a digi-cam and get some photos of my progress.
Teapo
An EP-8RDA and a EP-8RGMI. The 8RGMI had a single 470u out by the memory that kept it from booting and was an easy fix. The 8RDA had 4 1500/6.3 and 4 1000/6.3 teapo (t-blows) obviously out on it. My current fix works (passes memtest and boots) but is only temporary, as I scavanged other teapos of a board that had been cracked in two before the caps had time to go out.
I have a few hundred UCC KZEs of different sizes on order now, and a stack of mainboards waiting to be rejuvenated. Hopefully I can dig up a digi-cam and get some photos of my progress.
Teapo