Leadtek A250 - thorns among the roses

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  • pfrcom
    Oldbie
    • Jun 2006
    • 1230
    • Australia
    #1

    Leadtek A250 - thorns among the roses

    Dating from the middle of the bad capacitor plague, this Leadtek A250 shows a typical problem - small number of GSC electrolytic 'crapacitors' mixed in with quality Sanyo OSCONs

    And the GSCs have done what GSCs typically do
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    better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
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    • pfrcom
      Oldbie
      • Jun 2006
      • 1230
      • Australia
      #2
      Re: Leadtek A250 - thorns among the roses

      GSCs replaced with decent quality ones salvaged from defunct motherboards - deprecated practice, but not worth spending money on old computer ephemera

      3rd one, top right of pic between memory chips, was surrounded by heat sink assembly
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      better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

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        • c_hegge
          Badcaps Legend
          • Sep 2009
          • 5219
          • Australia
          #3
          Re: Leadtek A250 - thorns among the roses

          ^
          That one between the RAM chips looks like a TK. They are just as bad.

          But yes, I agree that it's not worth spending anything on a graphics card this old. I'm pretty sure this one was either a Ti4600 or Ti4800. Decent in their day, but very old now.
          Last edited by c_hegge; 04-09-2015, 11:17 PM.
          I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

          No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

          Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

          Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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            • Bungz
              Senior Member
              • May 2013
              • 133
              • UK
              #4
              Re: Leadtek A250 - thorns among the roses

              Nice to see older hardware repaired and kept going.

              Great cards in their day as said.

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