Fic k7s5a with bad caps

[fortner2]

There were 7 bad Gluxon 2200uf caps on this board. I replaced them with rubycon's and all is well running fine for now.

[c_hegge]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

FIC? Don't you mean ECS/Elitegroup? I've seen a few ECS K7S5A boards with bad G-LUXON caps, but I've never heard of an FIC K7S5A.

[ant3202]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

im just curious is it possible to have pictures uploaded for us to see?

[Scenic]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

i'm pretty sure he meant ECS..

had tons of those crappy K7S5A's with bloated G-Luxons. or one's where all caps looked fine, but the board was unstable.. turned out that more than half of all the caps had dried out without bloating or leaking..

by now i just throw them away. caps would be worth more than the board..

[fortner2]

Re: Ecs k7s5a with bad caps

My mistake this board is an ecs K7s5a. not fic. I was working on a fic motherboard also at the same time.

[Colt45ws]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

I have a K7S5A that has blown caps as well. Im going to recap it one of these days just for the experience. Ill throw a Duron 1800 and 512MB of DDR in it along with a couple NICs and have it do router duty.

[Scenic]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

if it works after the recap, go ahead and flash the cheepo-BIOS.

modded & official BIOSes:
http://translate.google.com/translat...n&hl=&ie=UTF-8

CheepoBIOS 1.21 beta for K7S5A Rev. 1.0 and 3.1 (based on latest official BIOS)
http://www.k7jo.de/bios/chb0811.zip

readme for CheepoBIOS
http://www.k7jo.de/bios/readme/README_chb0811.TXT

[Colt45ws]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

I think I flashed it with that already. But Ill check after its running.

[bigbeark]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

i'm pretty sure he meant ECS..

had tons of those crappy K7S5A's with bloated G-Luxons. or one's where all caps looked fine, but the board was unstable.. turned out that more than half of all the caps had dried out without bloating or leaking..

by now i just throw them away. caps would be worth more than the board..

Actually a pretty good board built to a low price-point. I recall Tom's Hardware giving these a pretty good review. I have recapped a couple of these with complete success. I still use one of these boards with an Athlon MP 2600 chip. It even runs cool compared to Intel 478.

I have had somewhat less success with Abit KT7A Raid and we know about their unfortunate cap problems.

[Uranium-235]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

the k7s5a's do have g-luxon caps around the vrm and so far i've only seen one with bloated ones

[Scenic]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

^ the ones i've seen so far had g-luxon *everywhere* on the board.. painus in the anus to recap.. especially if you keep in mind that this is just an ECS board..

a full recap would mean to spend more than twice of what the board is worth (in working order) nowadays..

seems like ECS boards from that generation always had G-Luxon or OST on them..
deciding which one of them you'd rather have is like choosing between being stabbed or shot.. >.>

[ratdude747]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

ost... not quite as bad... but then again it is ecs... they make crap, period. kinda like soyo... pure sh!t...

[pegdizzler]

Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps

I have one of these K7S5A's as well, and surprisingly none of the caps are bulged and I haven't had stability issues. A few weeks ago, however, I had finished transporting the tower it was in back to my house, and plugged it in with my ear right next to the tower.

BAM! 300W AGI PSU blew up... but the ECS still works!