Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

[KingBeezz]

Hello all,

My HP DC7100 doesn't boot, sort of hangs during Bios startup. Replacing the PSU but it did help. I'm guessing the motherboard is dying.

I'm looking for a cheap replacement, could anybody tell which older Abit, Asus (or ay other quality brand) socket775 915 or 945 or p35 boards are stable and known for having good caps?

Many thanks!

[yyonline]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

My Abit IP35 Pro has all UCC PSC polymer everywhere.
I've built a few IP35 Pro systems and they've all been mostly UCC PSC. A few has one or two OSCON capacitors on the board.

My Abit IP35-E board has UCC PSC polymer on the VRM output, Rubycon ZL on the VRM input, and a combination of Rubycon MBZ and Sanyo WG elsewhere.

[KingBeezz]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

Thank you.

BTW This should be: "Replaced the PSU but it DIDN'T help".

[weirdlookinguy]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

Try clearing CMOS. With the power disconnected, pop the small watch battery on the motherboard out and let everything sit for half an hour. Then put the battery back in, plug it in, and give it another try. There could be much deeper problems, but I had a client's computer do that (hang at BIOS) and clearing the CMOS fixed it. Probably some setting in the BIOS got messed up somehow.

[c_hegge]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

Try wierdlookingguy's suggestion first, but if it fails and you replace the board, I've found that gigabyte's socket 775 motherboards with Intel Chipsets are usually OK. Any of their ultra durable series use entirely polymer caps. I have a GA-EP45-DS3L and it uses all Sanyo SEPC. Other series have SEPC in the VRM and japanese electrolytic caps everywhere else (usually Sanyo WG or Nichicon HM - which are fine if the date code is newer than 2005).

[ratdude747]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

what brand psu did you start with? what brand did you replace with? you may have 2 bad psu's.

[KingBeezz]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

I will try to clear the CMOS first.

As far as I know the PSU works fine, last time I used it, it was 100% ok.
Original was a HP PSU, 365Watt, I now have the Coolermaster Extreme Power 380Watt.

The old HP board has a mix of good and bad brands on them like Rubycon, G-Luxon, an F symbol (with stripes above and under the capital), GSC, KZG, Nichicon. The board is from around 2005-2006 I guess.

I'm a bit limited when it comes to a new board because it must support the CPU (P4 530 HT).

And I rather don't want a MB with Jmicron on it, at least that is what people here are not recommending? That rules out the Abit IP35.

Thanks so far.

[KingBeezz]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

I know read on the internet that the p35 en 965 based motherboards have jmicron controllers aswell. Hopefully I will not have any troubles connecting a IDE dvd burner to a GA-P35-DS3, GA-965P-DS3 or Abit IP-35 board?

[c_hegge]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

No, those boards all have an IDE controller. I would recommend one of the first two motherboards as they are they are ultra-durable series with entirely polymer caps.

[yyonline]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

I have 2 DVD burners on my IP-35 JMicron controller, working fine. I'd recommend using the built-in Windows "Standard IDE Controller" driver. I found the JMicron specific driver rather buggy, but the standard IDE driver works just fine.

[i4004]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

>I'm a bit limited when it comes to a new board because it must support the CPU (P4 530 HT).

you don't seem to be aware of a simple fact: most boards you can buy today are precisely LGA775 boards, so you're not limited at all.
quite the opposite.

to that extent i dunno why would you be looking for older board if you can buy new?

i just bought two biostar g31-m7 mobos.
perfectly fine, perfectly cheap...

but you can skip that one, and find some that have all polymers, like those mentioned above...

ide burner will work, yes.
if one is too lil, put pci controller ide board, and you can connect some more, like i did.

[KingBeezz]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

Thanks! I have bought me a GA-965P-DS3 on ebay today for 35 euro postage included.

I will try to reset CMOS of the old board but it needs to go anyway.

@i4004. Sometimes boards do not always support the various P4 cpus.

[i4004]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

that price seems ok.

>Sometimes boards do not always support the various P4 cpus.

if it fits to the socket, it should support it.
if it doesn't support it, somebody's BIOS writing skills were not up to the job...heh...
probably what happens most of the time is the need to update bios to support NEW cpu models.

two new biostar g31-m7 were 42EUR(so one piece was 21EUR..heh), but yeah, it was a 50%-off sale.

oh yeah, good luck!

[c_hegge]

Re: Which older Abit, Asus socket775 915-945-p35 motherboards have good good caps?

The only CPU new LGA775 MBs don't support are the 3.06GHz P4 with 533MHz FSB and Celeron D. Your CPU (P4 530) should work fine with a new P45 based motherboard, but the one you got should be just fine as well.