Re: Asus A7V8X hdd issue

None of the capacitors had any visible signs of issues at all.


Yes the 1500uf in the mainboard were KZE as were the 1000uf caps in the psu but all those ones tested perfect. The ones on the mainboard are the right age and given the state of the other ones it doesn’t surprise me they were bad too.

The computer has been working flawlessly since recapping.

Just wanted to share a strange issue I was having when trying to get this system running again. It was working perfectly fine when put away.
A7V8X r2.01 XP2500(@2200mhz)+ 2gb DDR 400, AIW 9600xt 128mg, Audigy, Pioneer DVD-105 , DVR-115, Maxtor 300gb, seagate 160gb, Enermax Tomahawk 405w

A few years later when trying to get the system up and running again I could not get it to boot with two hdd's connected no matter how I set them up. Master or slave IDE 1 or 2, I couldn't even get the seagate drive to detect by itself after awhile, however with just the Maxtor and dvd drives...

Re: Sony Phat PlayStation PS2 power supply repair

Thank you sir for posting this info, you have taught me a valuable lesson regarding esr meters and my lack of one.

I had found the bad opto and replaced it with the same part infact but no joy until I found this post, swapped in a 47uf 50v cap and the psu works perfectly again.