Re: Bad Nichicon HM(M) on Dell Dimension 3000 motherboard.
So I rechecked my soldering and ended up removing and resoldering about half of them. That seemed to take care of the immediate reboots that I was getting, but I still had the failed loading (to Session5 Windows error) that I had prior to the recapping.
I was guessing that the blown caps may have corrupted critical XP files so I decided to try and wipe and install Windows 7. I was able to boot into the Windows 7 Setup DVD, but it was SLOW (we're talking about 45 minutes just to get to the "Choose your...
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Re: Bad Nichicon HM(M) on Dell Dimension 3000 motherboard.
I am still having issues after the recap and I am actually considering re-doing the recap to see if that remedies it. The computer randomly fails to turn on (or turns on for a few seconds then shuts down) or it will boot up but fail during the Windows load with the "Session5 Initialization Error" (which is the error I had prior to the recap). Sometimes the Dell lights on the back will indicate that a memory module is bad, other times they will be all green. I did get it to boot into UBCD but it took forever to...
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Re: Bad Nichicon HM(M) on Dell Dimension 3000 motherboard.
Thought I would jump in on this thread as just last night I attempted my first ever soldering job, and it was on a Dell Dimension 3000 motherboard too. Last night I did the removal process, which was 95% successful (more below). I had 2 KZG 6.3V 820uF caps bulging/leaking, but I decided to replace all 4 KZG 6.3V 820uF caps, along with a single KZJ 10v 1000uF caps. Interestingly, the single KCJ is in the same location your Nichicon is in. Mine was not bulging, but I had read they could be prone to failure so I decided to...
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