Re: Shuttle XPC SN68SG2 Badcaps

Just to recap (pardon the pun), I did replace all the capacitors that were 470 and up (with one exception, I'll get to that at the end).

Prior to the cap replacement I could not get my memory to run at the rated DDR2-800 speed and after it runs at the full rated speed. Also, during periods of high disk+cpu+memory operations it would lock up and require a hard reboot (StarCraft2 campaign loading process). Now, it's rock solid and has not crashed once.

I did not replace the capacitor between the PCI and PCIE slot because...

I'm not a complete newbie to solder but I am new to soldering on boards and components. I was practicing on an old motherboard last night the capacitor removal process and I got that going OK but I didn't have any extra capacitors to try and install, just the set that I bought from badcaps.net (which by the way went very smooth, mailed the same day I ordered them and got here quickly).

When I install the new capacitor I'm having troubles getting the solder to stay at the bottom of the lead next to the board. It has a tendency to want to migrate to the soldering tip. Do I need a...

Re: Shuttle XPC SN68SG2 Badcaps

So, I have an SN68SG2 like the original poster. When I first got the board it wouldn't power up with the first power on but after the 4 second hard power off it would run like a champ. But, it never would run with full memory speed. Now under a load it will lock hard. I've got 33 standard caps and 13 polymer caps. The standard caps run from 1800uF to 10uF and the polymers run from 820uF to 330uF.

My question is this: Do I really need to replace all of them or should I just replace the bigger capacatance capacitors (4 1500uF, 9 1000uF,...