Re: Advice Sought - 13 bad caps on Via VL-33S

Yes they are all GSC on the motherboard, but only the largest ones which are 2200uf are leaking.

I do NOT want to replace all of the non-leaking, smaller-value GSC caps on the board, as there are probably 30 of them, and it isn't worth the amount of time and effort involved at that point.

Re: Advice Sought - 13 bad caps on Via VL-33S

Thanks for the info thus far.

Would you say that someone who has several times replaced caps on older circuit boards (old arcade monitor boards and pinball boards, old electroic toys, radios, tube amps, etc) could do a cap job on a computer mobo? I ask because I keep reading that comp motherboards are tougher to recap because of board layers. Or is this bunk?

I also see folks talking about using 60W irons on this board. I have always used and been told to use 35W irons! What gives?

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Hello. I have a mobo that is rare. It's a socket 423 VIA VL-33s (P4X266) board that--get this--takes PC2100 (DDR266) RAM and *not* rdram!

Thus, I have a P4 1.7ghz CPU and a stick of 512 PC2100 RAM.

Unfortunately, the 13 (all thirteen) 2200 uf 10v 105 degree caps are all leaking badly. It still runs fine though, and has never crashed!

I've recapped a couple arcade game monitor boards before no problem.

Questions: Should I bother trying to save this board? How much harder is it to recap a mobo vs a regular circiut board? Also which caps...