Re: BSOD and Gigabyte Capacitors

Thank you so much, mariushm.

I ended up finding the Nichicon HZ on digikey. 3300uF, 6.3v.

Thanks again all!

Re: BSOD and Gigabyte Capacitors

Thank you for the replies Hemingray and Rulycat.

I was able to read the numbers off the capacitors and was hoping to get recommendations on replacements:
[LIST][*]3300 uF[*]KZG[*]6.3V[*](M)105C[*]4(T)[*]DD[/LIST]

Some of them actually had slightly different info:
[LIST][*]Some had 5(T) instead of 4(T)[*]Some had 2D, DE, or 20 instead of DD[/LIST]

What is 4(T) vs. 5(T)? and the different two letter codes?

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

• Re: BSOD and Gigabyte

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Hello,

I built a PC around 2005 for music recording and have used it extensively since then. It has never been connected to the internet and I rarely install new software on it. I configured it for music back on 2005 and left it be! (if it aint broke..)

So this past Saturday, it started BSOD (Windows XP, SP3) at random times. It would boot up fine and then suddenly blue screen. So I assumed a hardware failure given the information above. I went through the standard troubleshooting steps (replaced/moved around RAM, swapped video cards, disconnected all IDE except for...