Re: Ms-7093 ver:1.0

Wow, That was very well explained.

I appreciate very much the time you spent explaining that to me, that's exactly the kind of information I was hoping for.

Perhaps you should sticky that explanation before it gets lost??

I will follow that guide to the letter.

Mapping the caps tonight. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Thanks
FN

Re: Ms-7093 ver:1.0

Looks like I have to take a physical inventory of my board because I can't seam to find a schematic diagram to pull the cap values off of...

Should I get higher voltage values?

If I am understanding this right I'm looking for:

Quality Cap Manufacturer with
[LIST=A][*]low ESR [*]Low Ripple[*]Higher Voltage[*]Exact uF values specified by the board manufacturer[*]The same size can.[/LIST]

Is that correct?

1. Re: Ms-7093 ver:1.0
   
   Looks like I have to take a physical inventory of my board because

Re: Ms-7093 ver:1.0

I guess I am just unfamiliar with the grading system. Can you give me a quick lesson? As in what do these grads mean ect. Is there any that are 2 grades better?

Is Nichicon the next best option to Rubycon, followed by Samxon? Or all these the same grade? I guess I am just a little confused as to what makes a cap a grade higher. I think as long as I have to do this anyway, I may as well go all out as long as it's cost appropriate.

If it was your machine and assuming you wanted to keep it, what parts would you put in it?

Re: Ms-7093 ver:1.0

I am assuming that the best components for this project are the MCZ [rubycon]s Is that correct?

Re: Ms-7093 ver:1.0

I must have gotten lucky then because this is the very first time I have had to do anything at all to this machine. Its been smokin' fast and has never even needed a windows recovery. It's about 5-6 years old I think. And it still seams to be able to most anything I try to get it to do. With a good video card I can even play Crysis. It cost me $250.00 as a refurbished box, and I never looked back. I also have a gaming machine that I built with a Nvidia 780i SLI and it's not really noticeably faster until you start stacking crate or barrels in Garys mod or something...

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Re: Ms-7093 ver:1.0

Here are the additional photos. I hope these are much clearer.

Thanks guys I will check out those sites.

Is there a brick and mortar store in the midwest USA that sells a good soldering iron for this job?

The only ones I have are not good for fine work like this.

What would be the best replacements? I see that OST doesn't have a great rep.

Who makes the absolute best Caps?...

I am working on an older E-Machine T6212 with a MS_7093 MB.

It has at least one swollen cap. right next to the on board video.

I would like to identify the manufacturer and replace it with a better quality part.

Identifying markings:
OST
6.3v
1000uF
RLX
O503
105 C

I posted an image. I will post better images when the board is out of the machine tomorrow. The colors are blue with gold print.

Requesting any additional information on this issue.

Thanks
:smil...