got this board for free.
EPoX 4PCA3I Rev. 2.0 (socket 478)
nice board while it worked.. i875 (Canterwood) chipset and stuff like that.. quite "high end" for that time.
tested it with a 1,6GHz P4 and 256MB DDR400/PC3200 and my test-gfx-card (FX5200).
onboard debug LED Display showed "FF" all the time. no beeps.. nothing.
replaced all VRM input caps (GSC 2200uF 16V ; all of them leaking onto the board a bit out of the holes for the legs) with Panasonic FJ (1800uF 16V).
replaced all smaller valued caps around the DIMM slots, the northbridge, the PCI/AGP slot(s) and the front-USB headers (GSC & Teapo 1000uF 6,3V) with Nichicon HE (1000uF 6,3V).
was a real pain to replace all those small caps. (especially those between (!) the DIMM slots -.-)
left all VRM output caps (Sanyo WG 3300uF 6,3V) and all caps under 470uF (not much) as they were.
Tested the board again, POSTs and works fine
Rock stable. updated to the newest availible BIOS and i'm actually using this board to post this
Board is perfect for overclocking too
OCed my test-CPU (1,6GHz 400MHz FSB P4 Willamette) to 2,13GHz without any problems (533MHz FSB with +0,05V VCore)
highest primestable clockspeed so far is 2,41GHz. maximum (non-primestable) is 2,62GHz
i thought about replacing those Sanyo WGs too just to be safe.. but until now i think i don't need to
edit: pic of the 4PCA3+ Rev 1.0 ... almost identical to my 4PCA3I Rev. 2.0 (layout). only thing thats different is that the 4PCA3I is missing the Highpoint IDE RAID Controller
i'll post pics of my recap later...
EPoX 4PCA3I Rev. 2.0 (socket 478)
nice board while it worked.. i875 (Canterwood) chipset and stuff like that.. quite "high end" for that time.
tested it with a 1,6GHz P4 and 256MB DDR400/PC3200 and my test-gfx-card (FX5200).
onboard debug LED Display showed "FF" all the time. no beeps.. nothing.
replaced all VRM input caps (GSC 2200uF 16V ; all of them leaking onto the board a bit out of the holes for the legs) with Panasonic FJ (1800uF 16V).
replaced all smaller valued caps around the DIMM slots, the northbridge, the PCI/AGP slot(s) and the front-USB headers (GSC & Teapo 1000uF 6,3V) with Nichicon HE (1000uF 6,3V).
was a real pain to replace all those small caps. (especially those between (!) the DIMM slots -.-)
left all VRM output caps (Sanyo WG 3300uF 6,3V) and all caps under 470uF (not much) as they were.
Tested the board again, POSTs and works fine
Rock stable. updated to the newest availible BIOS and i'm actually using this board to post this
Board is perfect for overclocking too
OCed my test-CPU (1,6GHz 400MHz FSB P4 Willamette) to 2,13GHz without any problems (533MHz FSB with +0,05V VCore)
highest primestable clockspeed so far is 2,41GHz. maximum (non-primestable) is 2,62GHz
i thought about replacing those Sanyo WGs too just to be safe.. but until now i think i don't need to
edit: pic of the 4PCA3+ Rev 1.0 ... almost identical to my 4PCA3I Rev. 2.0 (layout). only thing thats different is that the 4PCA3I is missing the Highpoint IDE RAID Controller
i'll post pics of my recap later...
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