Re: Asus P5P800 - odd issue

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I'm cautiously optimistic that I may have fixed this. You know how the stock pushpin heatsinks make the board flex a bit, well I finally noticed if I un-flexed the board just a little (to mimic it being screwed into a case) then tried it again, it often made it start/stop working. So I decided to try reflowing the solder joints, and when I finished and went to put the CPU back in I saw there was one pin in the LGA socket that was slightly bent (I'm always extra careful with LGAs, I swear! ). I carefully pushed it back into...

Hi,

I have this P5P800 (LGA775) board which I recapped a while ago. The thing is it seems to work only sometimes. I can boot it up and it will POST, install windows, pass prime, etc. and be rock stable with no issues at all, and keep working no matter how many times I turn it off and on... then as soon as I stop paying attention, poof, it won't POST anymore. At this point I'll try everything I can think of, plugging and unplugging things, clearing the CMOS, leaving the memory or the video card out to see if it beeps (nope), looking for a short somewhere, can't find anything, nothing...

Re: Is the Asus A7V8X Plagued?

I once owned an A7V8X, and it had all Rubycons. For whatever it's worth

Re: Generic crap Matsonic PIII MB with Chemicon knock offs

yep. Personally I don't even bother to check them anymore, straight in the junk box they go. Seen too many issues even with new caps (yes, I recapped a few in the past... )

Re: Generic crap Matsonic PIII MB with Chemicon knock offs

reminds me of PC Chips with the cheesy heatsink and Canicons. VRM looks different than the ones I've seen though... anyway, nice

Re: What brand are these new polymers?

funny how board makers are marketing polymers as some kind of invincible science-defying cap that never dies

"high quality solid capacitors!" omg they're solid caps of purportedly high-quality just because they're solid, and have none of those pesky issues of electrolytics like a "lifespan" or anything, omgomgomg

feh

Re: supacon!!!

i've seen some of those before, quite a while ago. can't remember who made the board they were on... never seen any since. (good thing i guess!)

Re: Asus P4S533-MX question

yep, and a maximum 533MHz FSB, presumably
still, it's not too bad a platform, i work with lots of stuff older.. i've seen so many crapped out socket A boards that i'm starting to think no one made a well capped one ever
anyway, thanks for the help guys

hi everyone, been lurking around for a while, guess it's about time i joined in..
anyway, i have this P4S533-MX board that I want to preemptively recap. caps look okay and it posts fine but I just want to avoid any future trouble.. it's got 3 KZE's on it and the rest are OST and "Elite" (?!)
what i'm wondering about is this..



6 empty spaces in a row looks a little odd, do you think I should fill in some/all of them with extra caps? would anything explode if I do?

(btw, the 5 caps in a group there are Elite 1500uF ...