Hi,
Sorry for not having a picture to attach at this stage. I will try and get one up tomorrow. Until then, here is a link to the manufacturers picture of board: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/...xp-939_big.jpg
I have a system at home with a GA-K8NSNXP-939 motherboard. It has been slowly becoming more and more unstable to the point where it sometimes does not even get to the POST messages. I had a look and found that almost all 7 of the Nichicon 3300uF 6.3V HM series bulk-storage capacitors for the CPU are showing signs of being bad. At least 4 of them have vented explosively out the top and the rest are either leaning slightly or looking like they are about to vent. Several of the Nichicon 1000uF caps for the RAM regulators also look like they are on the way out.
It's a very good system and I would like to keep it going, but new socket 939 boards are hard to come by and this motherboard was top of the line when I bought it.
Do you think that the Rubycon MBZ series caps (of the same voltage and capacitance values) available from Badcaps would make a good replacement to the Nichicon HMs? The Rubycon datasheets () seem almost identical to the Nichicon (...
I would just like some feedback before I order anything.
Thanks very much,
Nick
Sorry for not having a picture to attach at this stage. I will try and get one up tomorrow. Until then, here is a link to the manufacturers picture of board: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/...xp-939_big.jpg
I have a system at home with a GA-K8NSNXP-939 motherboard. It has been slowly becoming more and more unstable to the point where it sometimes does not even get to the POST messages. I had a look and found that almost all 7 of the Nichicon 3300uF 6.3V HM series bulk-storage capacitors for the CPU are showing signs of being bad. At least 4 of them have vented explosively out the top and the rest are either leaning slightly or looking like they are about to vent. Several of the Nichicon 1000uF caps for the RAM regulators also look like they are on the way out.
It's a very good system and I would like to keep it going, but new socket 939 boards are hard to come by and this motherboard was top of the line when I bought it.
Do you think that the Rubycon MBZ series caps (of the same voltage and capacitance values) available from Badcaps would make a good replacement to the Nichicon HMs? The Rubycon datasheets () seem almost identical to the Nichicon (...
I would just like some feedback before I order anything.
Thanks very much,
Nick
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