Re: GA-7VAXP rev 1.1 - recap advise needed

No, WD40 doesn't save the day... just that I didn't have anything else handy... and I had replaced the fan anyway

however... I should have listen to you guys... A loud pop sound was heard in my room one night last week. My computer was still running ok, but I shut it down and opened the case. I saw a CHOYO 3300uF 6.3V bulged at the top with a small crack.

So this time I recapped everything else over 1000uF as you guys said.

Re: GA-7VAXP rev 1.1 - recap advise needed

it's a G-LUXON 1000uF 6.3V, and on the other side it reads

L Z 105 C
2083(M)

Dunno if you have clues about that.

well... on my 7VAXP, there are quite a number of other G-LUXON's, and they seem to be fine. Bad caps was a cause, but for my case, bad fans was the major one. My display card fan, north bridge fan and one of the PSU fan all had problems.

I had experience with system hangs due to stopped display card fan and north bridge fan (then I applied WD40 on them and back...

Re: GA-7VAXP rev 1.1 - recap advise needed

my GA-7VAXP rev 1.1 was purchased in Oct 2002 and went crazy early this week... I had an Apache HTTPD under Windows xp and crashed for no reason, and then BSOD (that "IRQ_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL" crap).

Opened the case and I saw three bad caps. Not the ones above though. Mine were the three in a row above the north bridge chip (and its crappy fan...). 2 of them (in green) are GSC 1200uF 6.3V and the other (in black) is G-LUXON 1000uF 6.3V. The 2 GSCs were bludged while the G-LUXON bursted at the bottom.

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