Re: Hot caps




Huh ?

Apparently I'm not just Canadian, but also a tad dim today......

Re: Bad caps, but machine is going strong.




Well, not useless, but I did the math:
55$ + tax for a new socket 478 motherboard (I'm not going to get into fixing these caps, I used to work with some saudering equipment and, well, I was pretty lethal for the boards...) to keep on using an old celeron, or 80$ and I bought a Sempron 2200 with motherboard, used.

I actually managed to sell the motherboard with processor to an unsuspecting twit for 65$ (he was warned explicitly about the caps, what he chooses to do about it now is his problem)....

Re: Bad caps, but machine is going strong.

Thanks for the advice.

I guess this solves my problem, I won't be selling off my Sempron 2200, I'll use it to replace the Celeron, since I know that the Celeron doesn't have much of a lifespan left.

I also have an old Duron with a bad cap beside the AGP slot, and that one works fine as long as you don't use an AGP card. I wonder how long that'll last.

On a completely unrelated note, anyone interested in a GA-SIML motherboard with 2 bad caps (along with countless other potentially bad ones), along...

Hi everyone,

I have the opposite problem of most people here. I was cleaning out my PC (dust and all) and found 2 pretty bad caps. What looks like rust entirely covers the top of one capacitor, and covers 80% of the surface of another one, just beside the processor. I'm guessing this damage has to be 6 months old at most, since I [I]should've[/I] noticed this the last time I cleaned it, if it was there. The caps are directly beside the processor socket.

This is an old celeron 1.7 with a 400FSB, so it's not worth having it fixed, but I wonder for how long it'll keep...