Hi everybody,

I have an LGA775 motherboard. it's a board from Lenovo ThinkCentre A53 system, it is called L-S662F. The motherboard officially supports Pentium/Celeron D and Pentium 4 CPUs. Actually I have a Celeron D 346 installed but this CPU is really a crap so I'm thinking to upgrade with something better; a dual-core CPU would be great. But I would like to avoid the old Netburst architecture of Pentium D, they goes hot and are power consuming, so I was wondering if I could install a Core 2 Duo, an E4300 for example, since the board has SiS662 chipset that is compatible with these...

Re: Fortron FSP300-60GLS: starts/spins/dies



I selected the nichi only because they are the only 8mm caps available from the shop I found - but yeah, I think they aren't so good afterall.

Unfortunately farnell has the same problem for 2200uF capacity; they have only those HM nichicon for 8mm diameter.



Yep. Since you seem know this PSU, do you have a good cap selection for this PSU recapping?



Obviously your POV as people that tipically consider this kind of work is not worth it is absolutely legit. Well,...

Re: Fortron FSP300-60GLS: starts/spins/dies

OK I found from a single shop:

2.2uF from Panasonic FC series (5x11mm) <- how about FC?
22uF from Panasonic FR series (5x11mm)
1000uF from Nichicon HM series (8x20mm)
2200uF from Nichicon HM series (8x20mm)

For less than 20 euro shipped

How good is this selection?

P.S. I don't know if I can ask here (if not, don't mind) but where can I buy good caps here in europe (I live in Italy)?

Re: Fortron FSP300-60GLS: starts/spins/dies

I decided to try to replace all caps with good ones.

The caps I have to replace are:

x2 CapXon 2200uF 6.3V KF series - 8mmx25mm
x8 OST 1000uF 16V RLP series - 8mmx20mm
x2 OST 22uF 50V RLG series - 5mmx10mm
x1 OST 2.2uF 50V RMH series - 4mmx7mm

Do you have good alternatives (like nichicon, rubycon or similar...) for these?

P.S. I searched for Panasonic FK; I found FR instead...are they good as well?

Re: Fortron FSP300-60GLS: starts/spins/dies



The tiny cap turned out to be 2.2uF 50V - I noticed one thing, I don't know if it is relevant but on the top of this cap there is a little sign of a bluish substance, I don't know if it is a leak or whatever; the first time I saw it I didn't give it so much importance since I thinked it was a sign of a blue marker that sometimes you find on caps. I attached a picture of it:



I started to replace this but, again, nothing changed.
Must try with the two 22uF but I have only one replacement for...

Re: Fortron FSP300-60GLS: starts/spins/dies



Absolutely true. Those Fortron PSU need also special size caps, those very slim 8mm caps, damn...



Vey true. I found two sleeved caps, one CapXon and one OST, those closest the heatsink; cannot told what they were until I cutted the sleaves.

If I'm not wrong until now I have localized these caps:

x8 OST 1000uF - 16V RLP
x2 CapXon 2200uF - 6.3V KF
x2 OST 22uF 50V RLG
x1 tiny OST unknown capacity and voltage - RMH series - I cannot tell more...

Re: Fortron FSP300-60GLS: starts/spins/dies

I always start PSUs with a minimum load like fans or FDDs, this was also the case but the PSU's fan stops immediately to spin anyway...

I think that even if others caps are apparently in good condition, maybe some of them are failing and need to be replaced anyway, or at least I hope so. But I wanted discuss the issue first to, eventually, buy new caps for nothing.

Hi everybody,

I own this PSU, FSP 300-60GLS but is not working. As soon as I power the PSU on the fan starts but immediately stops afterwards, nothing else happens. In my experience this is a classic for a PSU.

Initially I opened the PSU and I got two brand caps; while the majority are OST there are two C[I]r[/I]apXon as well. The very fisrt thing I noticed was a cap slightly bulged, CapXon 2200uF 6.3V. [U]Other caps are in perfect cosmetic conditions[/U] but since the CapXon are crap, just for troubleshooting, I decided to replace both with what I had available at...

Hi everybody!

I was wondering if is possible to replace the common electrolytic capacitors with solid state caps just like on the newer motherboards.

So, as stated in the title, is it possible?

Is possible to replace common electrolytic caps with better solid state ones with the same values?

Thank you