Re: Instances where a recap board will not work
I'm figuring there were enough blown caps (5!) to take the mobo south. I replaced the caps and no one behold, turned it on and fans came on full blast, with no video. It's a six year old machine, but I still want to fix it. At least eBay has for sale some XPS 410 boards that are in the $35 range that are supposedly new (old stock), but if the CPU is also bum, I'm not sure if I'd be comfortable putting $50 into a machine that old. God only knows if the CPU also became victim to this board. It'd be nice to only have to...
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Re: Instances where a recap board will not work
Guilty of the same thing....Leave a comment:
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Instances where a recap board will not work
Are there instances that even a recap will not bring a mobo back to life? Late last year I brought an old Dell Dimension 4400 from the local transfer station and even after recapping the motherboard, the unit was still non-functional.
Is there a "point of no return" with a computer motherboard where even recapping it will not fix it and it's just toast? I think I've only been able to save a few machines with bad caps, and in those cases, it was only one or two caps and the machine would still POST. -
Re: Options with Nvidia graphics card
Recaps on GPU boards are a miss on the one opportunity I've had. The one I have freezes up ever after the recap. But I wish you luck nonetheless!Leave a comment:
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Re: VP930b Cap replacing
On a personal note, I've recapped a few VP930b's with success, except for one I might have to go over. I've noticed a few Viewsonics that have had the plague bad.Leave a comment:
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Re: New Members - please post your introductions here
Name's Alexander, but I go by Sasha, I divide my time between Northern New York and the Catskills. I graduated from a SUNY college last year, have been job hunting and in the last few months while job hunting I've kept myself occupied by doing recaps. The first one I did with my stepdad was back in 2009 to a five year old Intel mobo (whose blown caps I still have in my "hall of shamed badcaps" unless I threw them out). Since then I've recapped many boards myself, with better luck on computer monitors. I've also re-soldered...Leave a comment:
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Re: Viewsonic/HP LCDs with bad caps
A ONE YEAR UPDATE:
I've saved all the L2045w's from the scrapper. One is the second monitor in my bedroom, the second is the monitor for another computer in my room, the third my younger half brother uses on his machine. A fourth I need to possibly re-solder as I don't think I did a good enough job.
I've sold a few of my items that I've fixed, given them to friends.Leave a comment:
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Re: Old AMD socket A motherboard replacement.
I brought home an old Socket A mobo from Eastern Europe that had just about every cap blown. Had I known what I know now, I would have saved the board.Leave a comment:
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Viewsonic/HP LCDs with bad caps
Guys,
My stepdad has been finding discarded LCD displays through his workplace (he's a carpenter who works in office buildings) and many of these LCDs have bad caps. The plague has also hit these too, but what is surprising is what I have come across.
Many of these monitors happen to be HP and Viewsonic models, and it bothers me personally as I attend a college that buys strictly Macs, HP PCs and accessories and Dell printers. Need I say more? And the L2045w's that my stepdad has come across have the same capacitor issues it seems. My college also has a few of these... -
Re: Solder gets into capacitor lead holes
Thanks! I'll have to try some of those tips.Leave a comment:
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Solder gets into capacitor lead holes
Guys,
I have an issue when me and my stepdad are replacing caps on an iMac G5 1.8GHz 20'' model. The issue that comes up is that solder gets into the capacitor lead holes, and what happens is that I can't put the new caps in.
Would a simple desoldering pump (a la vacuum pump) do the trick, or am I back to heating up needles?
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Re: Dell OptiPlex GX270 - multiple bad cap failures
My trig (we in NYS call it Math B) teacher one day found her GX270 unusable. There was another working one in the class, so she used that, but now when I look back, it probably was a bunch of blown caps.Leave a comment:
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Intel D865GBFL Cap replacement
Today me and my stepdad performed our first successful motherboard re-cap on an Intel D865GBFL board, that has been freezing on Flight Sim for a while now. The results have so far been good, and I'm surprised the motherboard works considering the abuse it went through fixing it.
The only issue is that the CPU core power is around 1.35v, which only bothers me because the Intel Active Monitor does not show it right in the middle of the gauge.
Other than that, the machine feels like new. I do feel bad that I didn't get the parts through Badcaps, but other than that,... -
Re: Dead Hp Compaq PSU
Personally, I'd find a PSU on eBay and throw that in, but used PSU's are nothing but trouble sometimes. Each has an advantage and disadvantage....Leave a comment:
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Re: HP pavillion 503w motherboard
I also am the owner of a 503w, bought at Wal-Mart for $300 in '03 on clearance. The thing has served me well, other than a near-rebuild of the machine.
I once had to send the entire unit to be serviced because of a CMOS checksum error in late '03. The machine's 8 years old and is still chugging along great! (even though I have less than decent regards for HP's tech support and machine design.Leave a comment:
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