Re: Abit AB9 Pro, i think the caps are OK

I'll be on the lookout for a PSU next week, i'll post up what i'm looking at before a shell out any $.

Thanks guys!

Re: Abit AB9 Pro, i think the caps are OK



A new power supply is on the list by the looks of it! Does anyone have a recommendation?

I've been doing some testing this morning, and a little googling, and I think I might have narrowed it down to memory. Scuttlebutt on the interwebs leads me to believe that these boards are a bit picky with RAM. Tests so far are consistant with that.

I'll run memtest on it like you suggested, Shadow.

thanks!!

Damo....

Re: Abit AB9 Pro, i think the caps are OK



Thanks for the link, i'll have a read.

Regarding the wattage of the hard drive, are you suggesting I need to put the PSU under more load to give a reasonable indication of it's output?

thanks!!

Damo....

Re: Abit AB9 Pro, i think the caps are OK

Anything that's overrated, or seems to be, is a bit suspect in my mind.


Does this look like the inside of a 550w power supply to you? Caps are either Canicon or Teapo.


I ran it up with a hard disk connected and the 12v and 5v rails both looked ok. In any case I will get another PSU and try the motherboard with that. We have some HP7700 at work, I will pinch a PSU out of one of them for testing purposes ...

Re: Abit AB9 Pro, i think the caps are OK

Hi guys. Thanks for the welcome and comments!


I have tried 2 different brands of RAM and the result is the same with both.


I haven't tried this yet. It's out of the case now so i'll be doing this next


I have tried XP & Vista but not Linux, but I might give that a go, thanks!


No diags at this stage, but I think it will be a good next step to try to narrow down where the problem lies.


This was the first PC I have built for...

I've been having some wierd problems with a motherboard I was using in a media centre PC. When loading windows it will reboot, and it will really object if I put memory in slot 2. Honestly I can't remember exactly what it was doing with the memory because it's been a few months since i've worked on it.

It did my head in troubleshooting it (I came to the conclusion that the board is cactus) and I haven't used it for 6 months or so when a colleague suggested it may be caps. Considering it was a pretty late model board I had never really considered the caps but it seemed to be feasible....