Re: 8RDA3+ VDD drops when hot - caps?


Thanks!

And oops, yes, they do say Teapo, even though "Cheapo" comes to mind...

Buying a new board sounds like a way to go, if I can find one to order. I can't be without this rig while sending the board halfway across the world, and also don't want to screw up my XP install by introducing a too different mobo. Any idea how to know which revisions of 8RDAxxx boards that have better caps on them?

Heard anything about the refurbished ones from here: [URL=https://www.epoxstore.com/Products.asp?CType=1&CID=1004]https://www.epoxstore.com/[/URL]...

Hi all,

My Epox 8RDA3+ mobo has always been a bit flaky, but these last few weeks it started behaving really badly. Random crashes, complete hangs, BSOD:s...

I suspected the problem was heat-related. Tried cleaning fans+heatsinks and applied new arctic silver, which got the CPU temp down from 50-ish to 40. The problems kept coming. When I opened the case and put a big table fan facing the mobo everything started to work fine.

Then I looked at what was happening in MBM5 and USBM without the table fan providing cooling. Hardly any difference at all in...