There were 7 bad Gluxon 2200uf caps on this board. I replaced them with rubycon's and all is well running fine for now.
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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.I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards
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Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps
im just curious is it possible to have pictures uploaded for us to see?
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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..
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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.Comment
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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.Comment
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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.TXTComment
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Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps
I think I flashed it with that already. But Ill check after its running.Comment
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Re: Fic k7s5a with bad caps
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.Originally posted by Scenici'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..
I have had somewhat less success with Abit KT7A Raid and we know about their unfortunate cap problems.Comment
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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 onesCap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
^If you have datasheets not listed PM meComment
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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.. >.>Comment
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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...sigpic
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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!Comment
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I know I've been a little scarce lately (like the last 2-3 years), but I'm still here and still doing my thing with fixing PSUs.
For today's considerations, I have a Seasonic B12 BC-550 [A551bcafh] 550 Watt ATX power supply for you (click on links for full size images).
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It's a modern ATX unit with fixed (non-modular) cables and an 80-plus bronze certificate. Here's the label:
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Hello,
First, I am a complete noob with high voltage stuff. I'm learning, but I need help by someone looking over my shoulder.
I recently came into posession of a Heathkit IO-4205 5MHz Dual Trace Oscilloscope. The documentation is copyright 1978. I'm told it works.
I opened it up to check the caps before I applied power, and found the following black caps and wanted to know what they were. They are on the power supply board. I was able to read the name and model and came up with, "Nytronics 162J-1, 0.1uF, 20% tolerance, 2000VDC."
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Hello!
I have two projects on my work bench. One is a friends dead JBL Xtreme speaker with a blown voltage regulator and corresponding bulged and shorted cap. That cap has clear markings so I know what replacement I need for it.
The other project however is a whole different deal. It's a Zoom 9000 guitar effect from the 90th that has developed a devil hound howl when there is no input from the guitar. I'm guessing caps problem. So, since I don't really use this effect anymore I thought it would be a perfect project to learn on.
I have studied the board and... -
I'm trying to repair two old VCRs, they both have bad caps. One has leaky ones, the other would barely run until I subbed in some caps from another power supply I had laying around (though they are the wrong values). This vcr works for an hour or two, but then the power supply starts whining and the picture gets lines in it. I didn't replace all the secondary caps, so another voltage might still be problematic, or the values I used are too far off.
I've been on mouser and digikey but the options are a bit overwhelming. I just need some new ones that will work. They don't need to be top quality,... -
Good evening
I recently aquired a rev 1.1 Gigabyte 60XT, and was suprised of the amount of leaking caps for a motherboard of the P3 era. Especially the way the 330µf caps seems like the housing discolored even.
Now, there are some 3300µF 6.3V KZG series around the CPU. Would it be OK to replace them with something like EEUFR1A332 ? (Panasonic FR 3300µF 10V). Or was this board designed around very low ESR caps?
But I was also suprised about the bigger boys, which are 330µF 25V.
Could it be they used 25V caps because they were cheaper / available at that time?...
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