Re: 8RDA recap problems

Thanks for your reply Blublur, I replaced all the capacitors which are 1000uF and above. I took sum wires soldered it to the holes on the motherboard where the 3300uF teapo caps were and wired it to a breadboard n stuck all the 3300uF ZL caps onto the breadboard, to solve the space problem. However, it still gave me a C1 error. I tested the board with a Tbred 1700+ and a stick of Kingston 256MB and swapped it to a Palo 1800+ and a stick of Crucial ECC. Still no go. Maybe I could have damaged the board while soldering. shucks what a first attempt.

Re: 8RDA recap problems

Thanks for your replies. Yes, the board was working just unstable, randomly crashes. I've replaced the Teapos, I still get a C1 error. Just finished soldering, kinda tired. Now all my caps above >1000uF are rubycon ZLs. I rechecked the board for shorts, but the pins are apart, I don't see any shorts. The CPUs and RAMs worked fine in my other set. I did reset the cmos a couple of times and tooked out the battery while doing the soldering. Thanks again!

Hi everyone,

I read most of the posts regarding the recapping process. I got a whole load of rubycon ZLs to replace my buldged GSCs. After solderingon the rubies, I booted up the board, the board stopped at C1. Telling me an error at the memory or cpu. Tried two sets of rams and cpu. C1 din go away. Btw I din change all the rubies coz the Teapos din look damaged, plus the rubies that were supposed to replaced it were much too big 12.5mm vs 10mm in a row. Too bad I'm living in Singapore, to send my board for a recap by the pros here. ARGH, really driving me up the wall...