Re: About to purchase Caps for Dell SX280

I'm attaching some pictures of the probably bad capacitor over the 3v battery with this message. I did not see the other capacitor when I took this photo as I had not disassembled the computer. The other capacitor is over the southbridge(?), same voltage and capacitance as the one around the 3v battery.

I think I'll go ahead with purchasing some new capacitors for this unit. Should I also replace the large ones just under the southbridge (when looking from the front of the computer) ? They look perfectly fine but there may...

Hey,

Just about to purchase some Rubycon 6.3v 820uf capacitors for a Dell SX280. The problem is that most of the time the hard drive is detected in the BIOS, but Windows XP and Ubuntu setup won't detect the drive, even in SATA compatibility mode. Additionally, the hard drive is often not listed as a boot option and when it is, it hangs for a few seconds and displays a disk read error, with the drive light remaining solid. The IDE controller for the DVDROM drive seems to work fine.

I've found one or two capacitors of the same rating that may be the cause of the problem....