awesome job...
my cousin just gave me a g5 17 inch..
she want me to pull her info off the hard drive and after that, it will likely be mine...
now i have something else to look forward too...
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Re: The Indestructible iMac G5 - Full Poly Mod
awesome job...
my cousin just gave me a g5 17 inch..
she want me to pull her info off the hard drive and after that, it will likely be mine...
now i have something else to look forward too...
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Re: Asus Ptgd-la
i know that this is an old thread, but i have one of these boards with the same problem...
i just cleaned it all up because it was caked with grime, and i plugged it into a known good power supply, and it failed the smoke test....
the large cap in the center of the 775 socket popped and smoked....
(i think it's a cap)
i didn't even get to push the on/off button...
i looked up the part but i can't find it, maybe somebody can lend a hand?
2V150
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Re: Charts Of Old Cap Values And Their Replacements.....
yep yep...
good idea...
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Can Bad Caps Show Up As A Bad Ram Stick Problem???
I just recapped a netvista motherboard..
before the recap, I put in 2 sticks of compatible ram, but the screen would freeze...
i took one stick out and tried them one at a time in each socket and isolated what I thought was the bad stick...
once i finished the recap, i tried each stick individually again and they both run fine...
i used memtest86 and prime95 and ran both tests for 24 hours each and came up with no errors....
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Charts Of Old Cap Values And Their Replacements.....
I made this chart to begin to keep track of comparisons between old and new cap for every motherboard that I will be recapping.
This particular chart was made from recapping a "Whitney" motherboard from an IBM Netvista.
Feel free to add your own charts so those who are new at this can have some values to compare and some discussions about those values.
Also, if you feel that i have left out some values or that this can be improved upon, please speak up..
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Re: Comparing The ESR Of Two Caps....
unfortunately, most of the data sheets i looked at so far have an esr column, but it's always blank...
but you gave me a bunch of other values to check...
thanks..
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Re: Comparing The ESR Of Two Caps....
thanks for the quick answer....
i'm gonna make a chart up as i go along of new v.s bad/dead caps....
we'll see how it pans out...
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Comparing The ESR Of Two Caps....
if i have a good cap and a questionable cap of the same values, do they need to be from the same manufacturer to do a proper comparison to find if the questionable one is bad??
also, is there any way or formula, besides 10 years of experience, to find the proper esr value from the other values on the data sheet??
i must have looked at at least 100 data sheets from about 10 different manufacturers in the past hour and not one of them listed an esr value...
thanks...
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Re: MSI MS-6312 Used in Gateway Flex System - Bad Capacitors
hi everyone...
i'm gonna recap one of these very soon for an experiment i'm doing with my nephews....
none of the caps look bad, but i know from past experience that at least 2 or 3 of them will have leaked from the bottom....
although this pc will freeze up once in a blue moon, the main problem with it is that it has gotten way slower over the years....
i can't even play a video without it stuttering every minute or so....
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Re: How Many Caps Should Be Replaced On The Average Motherboard??
kool, thanks.......Leave a comment:
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Re: How Many Caps Should Be Replaced On The Average Motherboard??
I'm reading up on esr as well......Leave a comment:
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Re: How Many Caps Should Be Replaced On The Average Motherboard??
thanks for the quick reply...
my multimeter has a built in capacitance tester, so i'll re-read how to use it....
i usually my my replacement components from Mouser:
[url]http://www.mouser.com/[/url]
i haven't had problems with them yet, plus i do a lot of work on older boards that aren't listed in the cap kit section...
thanks again...
Re: How Many Caps Should Be Replaced... Motherboard??...
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How Many Caps Should Be Replaced On The Average Motherboard??
i have read many posts on here that say replace all the caps on the motherboard, but i have read just as many that say that just a few caps have been replaced....
i was wondering if there was any sort of standard, like only replace the power caps, or only replace the ones above a certain value, or for a particular circuit....
For example, in this thread:
[url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=123&highlight=6312[/url]
there were nine caps replaced as shown in this picture....
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Re: Dell OptiPlex GX270 - multiple bad cap failures
i filled out the proper form on the dell website on january 23rd and they told me to wait 10 to 15 business day for a confirmation.
i got tired of waiting so i emailed tech support today and they claim that the offer for free board replacement expired on january 31, 2008.
oldest trick in the book and i fell for it.
i must be getting old....Leave a comment:
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Re: Dell OptiPlex GX270 - multiple bad cap failures
I called them and unfortunately they could not help me because i bought my 3 systems at a police auction and I did not have the original owner information which they require....
as far as i'm concerned, the system tag number and board tag number should be all that is needed, but that's just me....Leave a comment:
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Re: Dell W1700 LCD Rev00
hello all, i would like to thank everyone for the information in this thread. it helped me fix one of the two problems that i have with this monitor (w1700).
problem one was the screen going black for a second or two at a time for a few months until it finally went black completely.
i replaced the caps and fuses on the inverter board, but the display only powered up for a second and then shut off. i figured that i screwed something up, so i ordered a new inverter board. when i installed it, the same problem still existed, so...Leave a comment:
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