Soltek SL-KT600-RL

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  • pcengineer
    New Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 3

    #1

    Soltek SL-KT600-RL

    This info is reference material for others to find. This 2002 (7 year old) Soltek SL-KT600-RL motherboard started becoming unstable with random and increasingly frequency MS-Windows bugchecks. Decoding the bugchecks seemed to imply L2 cache errors. Further searching lead to the bad capacitor issue which visual inspection confirmed.

    The Soltek SL-KT600-RL motherboard has:
    * Qty 6 KZG (Chemicon?) 3300uF 6.3V 10mm caps
    * Qty 3 KGZ (Chemicon?) 1500uF 16V 10mm caps
    * Qty 9 OST 1000uF 6.3V 8mm caps

    The six 3300uF caps are located under the heatsink and all six have bulging tops. The higher temperatures in this area probably did not do them any favor. The three 1500uF caps are located in the same area and visually appear ok. The nine 1000uF caps are scattered throughout the board and visually appear ok. There does not appear to be any damage or leakage from any caps.

    Given the age of this board I'm replacing all of the above caps. Hopefully I'll know in a week or so if that was the only problem.

    Great site - thanks for all the info.
  • etnietering
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Apr 2009
    • 379
    • USA

    #2
    Re: Soltek SL-KT600-RL

    Good luck with your recap! What are you replacing them with? Keep us posted!

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    • pcengineer
      New Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 3

      #3
      Re: Soltek SL-KT600-RL

      With matching Rubycon low ESR capacitors from Badcaps.net. I sent the request in today:

      3300uF, 6.3v, MBZ, 10mm x 25mm
      1500uF, 16v, MBZ, 10mm x 20mm
      1000uF, 6.3v, MBZ, 8mm x 11mm

      I used to be a R&D hardware electronics engineer in a previous job so I feel reasonably comfortable with a soldering iron. Unless there is something else wrong this with the board this should be a successful and inexpensive fix compared to new motherboard, memory, OS, etc.

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      • pcengineer
        New Member
        • Sep 2009
        • 3

        #4
        Re: Soltek SL-KT600-RL

        Well four months later I finally got round to fixing this board (we used a spare laptop in between). The 3300uF capacitors were tough to remove, tough to clean out the holes, and tough to re-solder, all due to the large planes on one of the pins. I finally resorted to preheating that area of the board with a hair drier and using a Hakko 936 at its highest temperature setting. I also used a solder sucker which seemed to work without any board damage. Probably due to poor technique I could not get the desolder braid to work successfully at pulling the solder out of the holes.

        Now the PC is back and running with no hardware issues. The great advice on this forum definitely helped. Thanks.

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        • c_hegge
          Badcaps Legend
          • Sep 2009
          • 5219
          • Australia

          #5
          Re: Soltek SL-KT600-RL

          Nice work. The KT600 was one of VIA's very few good chipsets. I have an asus motherboard based on that chipset and it's an excellent board (after re-capping).
          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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