Abit KT7A raid. Raid trouble - badcap?

[tdipower]

Hi.

I have a Abit KT7A-Raid v.1.2.
1 of the 2 raid chanals have stopped working.
everything else seems to be ok. It is my server so I don't sitt by it all the time though. And thinking back, sometimes it has been rebooted.

I have looked at the caps and there is 4 1500uF caps that has gone bad.
I have recaped the board with 4 new once, and the computer is stil booting

But my raidcontroller is still not healty... anyone know if this is a cap problem or something else?

[kc8adu]

Re: Abit KT7A raid. Raid trouble - badcap?

you need to finish the recap job.btw bad caps on these boards cause corrupted raid.
fix it right before it costs you important data.

[tdipower]

Re: Abit KT7A raid. Raid trouble - badcap?

So it is a cap problem?
You know witch one? The others seem ok, but they might not be...

The trouble is the price of the caps. The 4 caps I bought did cost me 16$, so if I need to change the rest it is just not worth it when a new mainboard cost me under 80$

So if u know what caps make my raid-controller healty...
Or if you can ship me caps for a nice price to Norway....

-Fredrik

[AK0R]

Re: Abit KT7A raid. Raid trouble - badcap?

At the very least, anything 1000uF and above. Check the bad capacitors list. If it's on the list, the safest thing to do is replace it.

What kind of caps did you get that you paid $4 apiece for them, and where did you get them? A good supplier of components overseas has been RS Components. Their Norwegian website is http://www.no.rs-components.no.

[Chris1992]

Re: Abit KT7A raid. Raid trouble - badcap?

whoa.... $4/cap? What did you buy?