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  • sam_sam_sam
    Badcaps Legend
    • Jul 2011
    • 6041
    • USA
    #1

    Slim Desk Top Power Supply Very Bad Caps

    My boss brought his computer to work and said it DEAD would not power ON
    after power outage that lasted two hour

    Took a look at the mother board and most of the caps that are 850uf and 1500uf @ 6.3 volt had pop there tops a total of ten caps

    So I thought let me look at the caps in the power supply and all of the caps that are 100uf and less to 4.7 uf where all open no ESR reading

    about 10 of them

    This is the first switch power supply that I have seen that all of the low value are open like that

    I replaced all of the caps and the main power caps as well and all of the pop caps in the power supply

    And it came back to life I ran for about 30 minutes 2 different time and it seem to work OK

    I am going to recap all of the caps on the mother board

    Do you think there is any thing I should look for after I recap all of caps

    when doing a burn in test
    Last edited by sam_sam_sam; 09-11-2012, 07:30 PM.
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    • sam_sam_sam
      Badcaps Legend
      • Jul 2011
      • 6041
      • USA
      #2
      Re: Slim Desk Top Power Supply Very Bad Caps

      Up-Date.........> Burn in Test

      I fix this computer and save it from the land fill

      I also replaced the power supply fan

      This was bad would not run this was the cause of all of low uf value caps to be open they where all COOKED to death
      The brand of these caps I have not seen before the system fan for the CPU chip

      This computer was left ON from about 5 pm yesterday to 6 am today and was still working

      I ran a virus program that was on this computer and while I was running it the
      CPU system fan speed up and slow down and every thing seem to work the way it should
      Last edited by sam_sam_sam; 09-26-2012, 05:26 PM.

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        • OniJon
          Computer Expert
          • Jun 2012
          • 82
          • Finland
          #3
          Re: Slim Desk Top Power Supply Very Bad Caps

          Very good!

          I'd like to repair stuff like that too, but here in Finland everybody's just "ahh, it's scrap, throw it out"

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            • sam_sam_sam
              Badcaps Legend
              • Jul 2011
              • 6041
              • USA
              #4
              Re: Slim Desk Top Power Supply Very Bad Caps

              Originally posted by OniJon
              Very good!

              I'd like to repair stuff like that too, but here in Finland everybody's just "ahh, it's scrap, throw it out"
              Here in the USA there are alot of people that feel the same way

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                • OniJon
                  Computer Expert
                  • Jun 2012
                  • 82
                  • Finland
                  #5
                  Re: Slim Desk Top Power Supply Very Bad Caps

                  Originally posted by sam_sam_sam
                  Here in the USA there are alot of people that feel the same way
                  Yea, it's stupid. You can have the good old machine back for less money and hazzle than buying a new shitty one.

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                    • Khron
                      Badcaps Legend
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 1350
                      • Finland
                      #6
                      Re: Slim Desk Top Power Supply Very Bad Caps

                      Originally posted by OniJon
                      Very good!

                      I'd like to repair stuff like that too, but here in Finland everybody's just "ahh, it's scrap, throw it out"

                      Too true.....

                      And not fair!
                      Khron's Cave - Electronics - Audio - Teardowns - Mods - Repairs - Projects - Music - Rants - Shenanigans

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