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  • willawake
    Super Modulator
    • Nov 2003
    • 8457
    • Greece

    #1

    GA7-ZXE Rev 1.0

    customer brought this one in today.



    the red arrows indicate the failed and the blue indicate the larger values of caps, all others are the 330uf

    2 obviously blown 3300uf 6.3V

    total to replace :

    5 x 3300uf 6.3V (yes)
    1 x 1200uf 6.3V (yes)
    8 x 330uf 25V (yes)

    it would be best to recap also the 330uf as they are quite large sized caps with vents even though their uf value is less than 1000uf and would not normally be necessary to recap.

    For those, i will use 1000uf 16V as I have seen TC using those for a similar job. I actually have some 1000uf 10V lying around but would prefer to follow a tried and tested method for a customers board.

    well the 3300uf are going to look a bit ugly as the ones available are 12.5mm width. Here are the parts to be ordered from RS components, in case anybody is doing the same job i am posting what i will do as i think it out.

    There are quite a few places on the board where caps are stencilled to be placed but were not. Therefore care will have to be taken not to solder a new capacitor in the wrong position.

    Panasonic FC
    3300uf 6.3V 12.5 W x 20H, 1.54 euro each, part no 449-0873
    1200 6.3V 10 W x 16H, 0.54 euro each, part no 315-0259
    1000 16V 10 W X 20H, 0.68 euro each, part no 449-0980

    so that will be 13.68 euro actual cost but have to order in packs of 5 so total is actually 17.2 euro + shipping. worth doing at that cost because the cpu is an athlon 1000, still a reasonable machine for today.
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    Last edited by willawake; 11-09-2005, 02:27 AM.
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  • willawake
    Super Modulator
    • Nov 2003
    • 8457
    • Greece

    #2


    recapped with panasonic FC. Ran DocMemory but got some memory errors. Thought i had done a bad job. Took out the customers ram and put a good one of my own. Passing memory tests fine. I have to do more testing but i guess the badcaps damaged the customers ram. It is not a bad stick of ram 256mb Geil 133 SDRAM with Hyundai chips. There was a leaking cap near the ram.

    Anybody have ideas?
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    Last edited by willawake; 11-09-2005, 02:28 AM.
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    • bushytails
      Moderator
      • Dec 2004
      • 217

      #3
      Not quite sure what you want ideas on... if their ram is bad, their ram is bad... although that seems a little odd.

      The first question that comes to mind, is did you test it BEFORE the recap?

      It's quite possible the problems the customer was having were in fact the ram, and the bad caps weren't the real cause of the problems, having not quite failed enough to cause problems yet. (although they sure would in not that long a time from the looks of them)

      The 694d I'm typing this on now is in far, far, far worse shape capacitor-appearance-wise than that board, yet is still running flawlessly...

      Not, of course, that still using it is a good idea... in the middle right now of clearing off my table in the garage so I can get to my soldering equipment, and make use of those new shiny caps I got.


      --Randy

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      • willawake
        Super Modulator
        • Nov 2003
        • 8457
        • Greece

        #4
        It's quite possible the problems the customer was having were in fact the ram, and the bad caps weren't the real cause of the problems, having not quite failed enough to cause problems yet.
        yeah i am down with that. how unlucky can you get.
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