Re: Recapping Abit BG7m with polymer

I had been trying to do a clean install of XP before this repair; it passed the point where it was hanging with 33 mins. to go and completed the install. It was rebooting alot so I figured it didn't survive my soldering. Since half of the previous install was with the bad caps I started over.

XP is now installed with all the updates. I think the security updates could be considered a burn-in test just because of the number of them. I'm still having the same trouble with the dvd rom drive, where it works just fine for the XP installation...

My decade old Abit 478 pin P4 533 MHz FSB board finally ceased to function reliably and killed its ATX power supply. Visual inspection revealed eight 2200uF 6.3V HM(M) HD147 Nichicons bulging/leaking (and two empty spaces) near the processor, and one lonely 1000uF 10V HM(M) HD139 Nichicon bulging (and one empty space) near the ATX power connector. The other smaller caps appear ok.

After some research (mainly badcaps.net and this forum), I ordered 10 [URL="http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?WT.z_header=search_go&lang=en&site=us&keywords=493-3109-ND&x=16&y=17"]Nichicon...