and fyi, i was using corsair cmx1024-3500LLPro RGB rams. i found your post :

[url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/general-topics/general-computer-tech-discussion/51639-ghost-of-christmas-past-retro-resto-iwill-dvd266u-rn[/url]

you was saying if use 4G non-ecc ram, it runs well, are they ddr400 or ddr266? because when i plugged in 4 dimms, just beep, no signal on screen, but 3G is working well.

Thanks.https://and fyi, i was using corsair...d266u-rn[/url]

yeah, thank mate.

do you have any idea that why the official pdf says it can support up to 4G DDR1 but when i plugged 4x1G corsair DDR1, it cannot boot at all, with 3x1G sometimes it's stuck while checking rams.

do you have any chance to try 4x1G on yours ? and i can confirm nothing to do with my recap work, because the issue happened even before the recap work.

many thanks.

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Hi very happy to see your comment.

it's correct, i've checked the 'iwill smart setting', and the default is 66mhz, not sure why, i had a supermicro P3TDDE, which can by default let PIII-1.4s run at 1.4GHz, and can use 4x1G pc-133 rams without issues. thus i guess this dvd266u-rn can do as well.

the ram info, i checked it from here : [URL]https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/iwill-dvd266u-rn[/URL] there is the official pdf , at page 15, with a section mentioned max system memory up to 4GB.

and fyi, i please check my shared post-recap photo , i think it's...

Hello topcat,

i have finished the recap and all good , but has 2 probs.

1. i plugged 2 piii-1.4s, but can only detected 2x700Mhz.
2. i cannot boot with 4G ram, even with 3G, sometimes it's stuck on ram checking. (i am using corsair 4x1G dedicated ram)

can you share any reasons?

thanks a lot....

Hi Topcat,

happy to hear from you.

I saw that post as well. can you also please share the back view of the motherboard , just want to see the terminals of those caps.

thanks.

Hello, Topcat

I know this is an ancient post , but .... I recently purchased a Iwill DVD266U-RN board from Japan.

just have 2 questions if you can give any advice,

1 ...... the caps are obvious dead, I am going to recap them, I prefer using solid caps ( sanyo, coz no need to do it again for ever i believe ) , but most solid caps dont have same value as electric caps (unable to find and no need to i think).


1. for 13 dark green 6.3v1000u caps (in PCI AGP area) , i'll use 6.3v560u
2. for 9 purple 6.3v1500u caps (in ram area...