Re: First attempt at recapping - success!

Tried that... and received a lovely empty envelope from the Netherlands office of soltek. What the person who stole them could have wanted with some capacitors I do not know - they probably just saw it was electronics (soltek announce this on their company envelopes) and thought it would be expensive.

willawake - I'll take a couple of pics of the finished work when I get a chance....

Hello,

I had a soltek board that had lots of leaking and bulging GSC caps - the system was randomly resetting and occasionally refusing to post.



I just sucessfully recapped the board. It wasn't as hard as I thought but I was sure I'd killed the board as i slipped with the iron a couple of times and left scratches across some traces on the board. However when I plugged it all back in it worked!

I've atttached a few photos of the equipment I used, including my craptastic £10 soldering iron (yes, it's temperature controlled/grounded and yes...

Re: High pitched noise from motherboard - symptom of bad caps?

Here are the photos of the gigabyte board. I count 4 of the large purple choyo caps, 8 of the smaller black g-luxon caps and 3 green choyo caps.

The last photo is of one of my soltek boards. I hadn't opened the case since I built it and it seems to definitely have a case of bad caps. How long does it take to receive replacement caps from soltek once they've accepted a request?

As you can see non of the caps on the 7dxr+ look bad externally, I think I'll wait to do the gigabyte board last the...

Re: High pitched noise from motherboard - symptom of bad caps?

Ok, I'll give it a go, haven't got much to loose really.

I also have a machine with a soltek kt400-a4c which has been occasionally refusing to post and wake up from standby, reading the forums it looks like that could be due to bad caps too, the same board is in in my house server, so with three boards to recap it starts to look financially viable vs just replacing the board (as long as I don't toast them!)

I've never done any soldering before, maplin in the uk have a good deal on a [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=35016&1&source=21&doy=3m6"]grounded...

Re: High pitched noise from motherboard - symptom of bad caps?

I'm in the UK - do you recommend anyone to replace the caps over here?

Re: High pitched noise from motherboard - symptom of bad caps?

I've just found the hall of shame section of the forum. Looks like those brands are bad. Sorry for looking things up better before asking.

Re: High pitched noise from motherboard - symptom of bad caps?

The board is in fact a 7dxr+ if that makes any difference. It's about 3-4 years old and has always been stable

It's a little difficult to make out the capacitor branding without taking the board out of the case, but there appear to be two brands of capacitor on the board. One is green and gold with "K" shaped groves in it's top and says "choyo" on the side. The other is black and gold with and "X" shaped grooves and appears to have "G-LUXON" on the side, but I'm not...

Hello,

I have a gigabyte 7dxr motherboard which makes a very high pitched noise. The noise is always there, though it flucutates slightly several times a second in an apparently random pattern. The noise is present even when the board is in "off" mode with a trickle current from the psu.

I'm pretty sure the noise is from the board and not another component as I've tested with only the board and the psu (all other component unplugged) the noise isn't present when the psu is on and motherboard disconnected, appears immediately when board has power.

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