So I got a Sun X2200 M2 a month ago, and did my usual run of redoing the thermal compound on it, de-dustifying it, etc. and have been successfully running it for a month on and off, and more-so after finding and updating the BIOS and ELOM firmware on it.
So a couple weeks ago, I pulled the second CPU's heatsink and re-repasted it since it was running warmer than the other CPU. (doing this solved the problem.) while doing this, I saw something I didn't see before... one of the capacitors next to the CPU socket [B]UNDER the heatsink[/B] had pooped its pants! when I saw it, it made me...
Sudos
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Re: Sun Ultra 10 Creator 3D 440MHz...
found out about the Octane, it's the revised motherboard. the Indy in my posession is unknown yet if it needs anything; I just got some 13W3 to VGA adapters so I'll be testing them out sometime soon in the next few weeks. both are as dusty as hell but I should be able to figure it all out in time. -
Re: Sun Ultra 10 Creator 3D 440MHz...
yep, familiar with it, I've been hanging out in their IRC channel for a while now....Leave a comment:
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Re: Sun Ultra 10 Creator 3D 440MHz...
I'll do that once it stops raining... northeastern US is getting hammered with storms this past week so far.
is this an issue that can be prevented with some sort of modification or is it going to inevitably fail?...Leave a comment:
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Sun Ultra 10 Creator 3D 440MHz...
Just thought I'd share this with the masses, since it happened to me.
Got a few systems from a friend moving to Europe, including a Sun Ultra 10, an SGI Indy and an SGI Octane. the Indy and Octane are still currently untested, but when i opened the Ultra 10 to pop in a USB card before my first boot of it, I was welcomed with the unsightly bulge of capacitors next to the UltraSPARC IIi CPU card. it seems the fan siezed and the caps went puffy. and one that would have otherwise gone puffy went and pooped its pants!
The CPU for reference is an UltraSPARC IIi 440MHz, the fastest...Last edited by Sudos; 06-02-2015, 05:04 AM. -
Re: Shuttle SB61G2, shorted NB? && Cap Replacement Question
no REL mode on this cheap meter, a real bummer.
I'll take a look later on. for now, it's work time.Leave a comment:
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Re: Shuttle SB61G2, shorted NB? && Cap Replacement Question
You can thank Sony for that. stupid camera doesn't even have a manual macro setting.
R233 and CD104 as well as CD104 and a few other capacitors around all have a continuity of .005 with my cheapie Radiocrap meter. the ones marked CD56 and CD57 up by the NB and coil show a continuity of 0. so I'd think that those are blown then? there's also that little group of smaller ones and resistors as well under that, I checked a few there and was given quite a few different readouts from .075 to...Last edited by Sudos; 05-07-2013, 08:59 AM.Leave a comment:
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Shuttle SB61G2, shorted NB? && Cap Replacement Question
I have a 10 year-old Shuttle SB61G2 here that I seem to have stupidly killed.
I was testing different ways of mounting LED strip lighting inside for some illumination, but ended up letting the tip droop down and touch a resistor in between the RAM slot and the capacitor on the bottom middle of the board shot below. for reference, that's the capacitor with R233 marked by it, not for it, but just to be clear about location. The area it touched is in the vicinty of the 4 resistors there. They all test out fine, so I powered it up.
Note: the motherboard model is FB61, v2.1.... -
Re: Finally found them! Shuttle SG31G2S
I just acquired 4 SG31G2's for free. all had problems marked on them, and all had a helping of 1 to all 3 of the 6.3 1800's bulging.
pretty much harvested the capacitors needed off of a donor board full of Rubycons (not good practice, I know.) and recapped them all, didn't bother leaving the non-bulging ones in there. Viola, all 4 are running strong just like that. I left them each on for 3 days straight under heavy load and they haven't had any issues. one even went cross-country already and now has an E8200 and an 8800GT...Last edited by Sudos; 05-06-2013, 05:34 PM.Leave a comment:
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Optiplex SX280: Bad caps? just upgrade it!
[b]GET READY FOR A WALL OF RAMBLE![/b]
I have two Optiplex SX280 USFF boxes, one in storage and one that I used 24/7 for about 10 or so months. I picked both boxes off Craigslist for $25 each, with power supplies, P4 2.8GHz Prescotts, 512MB RAM each, but no hard drive (but did include the rails.) What ended up happening was, the guy was selling them because he couldn't get the Ethernet ports working... which was more or less the stupidity of the seller.
so I immediately take them both apart when I get home and find a slew of bulging caps on one, and only a single...Last edited by Sudos; 03-22-2013, 06:56 PM. -
Re: GPU came off of compaq presario mobo
just to chime in here, the CQ57 you have has an E-300, which has the GPU onboard the CPU, because it's an APU.
the little heatsink there is for the southbridge. my X120e does not have one for this chip, and it is entirely optional, I believe.Leave a comment:
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Re: Toshiba C655D No AC power, will run off battery.
C655 here in my posession is doing this as well, but I"m not getting battery from either the AC jack or the battery at all. nothing happens.
I had this happen to a motherboard I cleaned the corrosion off of, and then again to one I got off eBay to replace it which was otherwise working fine.
so for it to happen to both in one shot, I'd say the MOSFETs or TI controller on these boards are seemingly becoming a common problem?Leave a comment:
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Re: New Members - please post your introductions here
Steve from Jersey here. I work IT and do freelance computer repairs on the side. I've done quite the number of capacitor replacements and I've used Badcaps as a resource at work, saving money and getting problems fixed without having to resort to third party repair.
Happy New Year!Leave a comment:
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