Hello...
One of my older builds came in for repairs and upgrade.... a mighty ABIT AG-8 with a Pentium4 630!
The TruePower 2.0 PSU Fuhjyyus were hatching and causing stability trouble, and the board itself was getting flakey. Fortunately, the owner wanted Core2Duo, so in went a nice new Seasonic PSU, new board, memory CPU and they left happy.
And I got to keep the old parts!
The Antec is now full of Nichicon and UCC with a new faster fan (still silent).... but the AG-8 is another story.
The board works great for about 5 hours and then... Crash! Even the BIOS goes to defaults as if the battery were dead. (yes, I replaced the battery!) This happens with any PSU being used, including a nice new EA380.
The AG-8 was one of ABITS first "All Japanese Capacitor" boards, and this one is full of Rubycon YXG, Nichicon ZL and UCC KZG all in apparent good condition (from the outside).
In particular, the CPU is guarded by a forest of 2200uf/6.3v KZG that all appear fine but probably got fairly warm for awhile.
Isn't the KZG one of the "doesn't like Heat" caps?
Should I just order up a batch of Nichicon or Rubycon? Or would polymers be a better choice in this area?
Happy for a great experimentable board,
Keri
One of my older builds came in for repairs and upgrade.... a mighty ABIT AG-8 with a Pentium4 630!
The TruePower 2.0 PSU Fuhjyyus were hatching and causing stability trouble, and the board itself was getting flakey. Fortunately, the owner wanted Core2Duo, so in went a nice new Seasonic PSU, new board, memory CPU and they left happy.
And I got to keep the old parts!
The Antec is now full of Nichicon and UCC with a new faster fan (still silent).... but the AG-8 is another story.
The board works great for about 5 hours and then... Crash! Even the BIOS goes to defaults as if the battery were dead. (yes, I replaced the battery!) This happens with any PSU being used, including a nice new EA380.
The AG-8 was one of ABITS first "All Japanese Capacitor" boards, and this one is full of Rubycon YXG, Nichicon ZL and UCC KZG all in apparent good condition (from the outside).
In particular, the CPU is guarded by a forest of 2200uf/6.3v KZG that all appear fine but probably got fairly warm for awhile.
Isn't the KZG one of the "doesn't like Heat" caps?
Should I just order up a batch of Nichicon or Rubycon? Or would polymers be a better choice in this area?
Happy for a great experimentable board,
Keri
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