Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS, recapping gone bad

[s0lid]

Well this is a nice board and i recapped it while ago and well with bad consiquences
As you might know Asus prints + side of cap to board with white ink, not the - as normally, well i noticed that after one of caps blew up.

So is there any possiblity get this board workinga gain?

[ratdude747]

Re: Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS, recapping gone bad

so what went wrong here/what does/does not work? visible faults?

what do you want to do to fix it?

[s0lid]

Re: Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS, recapping gone bad

so what went wrong here/what does/does not work? visible faults?

what do you want to do to fix it?

Well i put almoust every cap the wrong way

Yea i'd like to fix it, would be nice for my fileserver

[momaka]

Re: Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS, recapping gone bad

Just desolder the caps and put them in the right way. Of course some might be too damaged and might need to be replaced. I'm not sure on how to detect those, but hopefully someone here with more experience can tell you how.

As for next time, get a permanent marker and before you take out any original caps, mark the negative side with a dash. Some people prefer to draw a map on paper, but I like this way since it's easier and the permanent marker can come off easily with rubbing alcohol.

[digge]

Re: Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS, recapping gone bad

A good way i found to do it is simply to take a picture of the board before you start. If in doubt just look at the picture. Can be quite hard to remember what value cap goes where, and in some cases as you noticed they mark the pcb wierd. Was like that with a Dell board i worked on a while ago.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS, recapping gone bad

Hi, welcome to Badcaps Digge!
Hmm, and here I was thinking I was the one who worked on that board and gave you that idea with the camera

[digge]

Re: Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS, recapping gone bad

Details Per, details