This board was completely covered with Wendell brand capacitors, mostly 1000uf 6.3V and 1500uf 6.3V. Every single one of these were bulging.
Of course the machine had gotten extremely unstable and would reboot itself or park the IDE drive randomly.
I recapped it with Rubycon MBZ's, 1500uf 10V and 1000uf 10V. The machine works GREAT now, although the BIOS hardware monitor now says that all the voltages are higher than what they should be... e.g. 12V rail reads 12.5, etc. Not sure if this is a side effect of using 10V caps, as I don't remember if the hardware monitor reported higher than normal values before. Also changing power supply has no effect on these high values.
When I get a chance I'll take the board out the case and check the real voltages with a DMM.
Other than that, I left it running Sandra burn in for a whole day and no crashes, so I think it's good-to-go.
Of course the machine had gotten extremely unstable and would reboot itself or park the IDE drive randomly.
I recapped it with Rubycon MBZ's, 1500uf 10V and 1000uf 10V. The machine works GREAT now, although the BIOS hardware monitor now says that all the voltages are higher than what they should be... e.g. 12V rail reads 12.5, etc. Not sure if this is a side effect of using 10V caps, as I don't remember if the hardware monitor reported higher than normal values before. Also changing power supply has no effect on these high values.
When I get a chance I'll take the board out the case and check the real voltages with a DMM.
Other than that, I left it running Sandra burn in for a whole day and no crashes, so I think it's good-to-go.
