Having gotten the bad capacitor bug, I've started looking at more than my motherboards. I even suspected that a problem with my washing machine might be bad caps, but alas; it appears that they are probably not the problem--the caps there are high quality.
I recently opened the PSU to my main home machine, which dates from 1996. The motherboard is a Supermicro P6SNE running a PII overdrive chip. The motherboard caps are all high quality--Sanyos everywhere. This machine has been running for thirteen years just fine so I expected that the PSU probably had high quality caps in it. I was surprised when I looked inside--the PSU is a Macase 300W AT unit and, as far as I can tell, *all* the caps are Fuhjyyu brand, both on the primary and secondary. All look perfectly fine, though the unit was very dusty.
It's difficult now to get 300W AT style PSUs, so at some point I'll have to replace all the caps, so my first question is, should I do it soon?
My other question concerns a server at work that has been out of action since last December because its FIC FB11 motherboard kept freezing up. The motherboard now works stably after a recap, but I opened up the PSU and found a venting cap so I'm going to recap that unit. My main question for that unit is whether I should also replace the Hitachi primaries. The PSU is a PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 300 and was running for six years 24/7. I'd like to put it back in service for another six to ten years, so I worry about even the primaries. (The secondaries are nearly all bad brands, so they're all certainly going to be replaced.)
I recently opened the PSU to my main home machine, which dates from 1996. The motherboard is a Supermicro P6SNE running a PII overdrive chip. The motherboard caps are all high quality--Sanyos everywhere. This machine has been running for thirteen years just fine so I expected that the PSU probably had high quality caps in it. I was surprised when I looked inside--the PSU is a Macase 300W AT unit and, as far as I can tell, *all* the caps are Fuhjyyu brand, both on the primary and secondary. All look perfectly fine, though the unit was very dusty.
It's difficult now to get 300W AT style PSUs, so at some point I'll have to replace all the caps, so my first question is, should I do it soon?
My other question concerns a server at work that has been out of action since last December because its FIC FB11 motherboard kept freezing up. The motherboard now works stably after a recap, but I opened up the PSU and found a venting cap so I'm going to recap that unit. My main question for that unit is whether I should also replace the Hitachi primaries. The PSU is a PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 300 and was running for six years 24/7. I'd like to put it back in service for another six to ten years, so I worry about even the primaries. (The secondaries are nearly all bad brands, so they're all certainly going to be replaced.)
) that is the most under built gutless wonder and its from a 486 box. no filters, tiny caps (rubycon but still too small and not enough), tiny finless heatsinks, tiny transformers, you get the idea.
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