Re: P4C800 deluxe memory problem

Thanks for the reply. I have previous soldering experience but to
save time I asked a quote from local service, but they did not
bother to aswer. I am located in Finland, so Topcat's service is
not available.

I've tried cleaning holes with needle on a junk board with
employers JBC pro soldering station. This works, but cleaning tin
from the other size needs extra work.

I then bought Weller desoldering iron with my employers expense.
Already with a little testing I can say the...

Has anyone seen affodable and small multi channel temperature
meter suitable for capacitor temperature monitoring?

My 3 years old Seasonic S12-430 PSU has OST caps on the
secondary. The PSU has been used for 24 000 hours. I checked the
caps with an ESR meter and they are still fine, all the big ones
are less or equal to 0.04 ohms.

I would like to monitor the PSU cap health in an easier way than
disassembling it half way every time. One way would be to
monitor the capacitor temperature with sensors attached to
biggest...

I've over 4 years old P4c800 deluxe motherboard which has been
running 24x7 last 4 years. It has 8 OST RLXes as VRM output filter
and about 20 OST RLS here and there.

The machine booted itself and failed POST by saying "bad bios
checksum". I have 4 pieces of Kigston 1GB 400MHZ ECC DDR dimms
and one of them seems to have failed. Normally I would just order
a new DIMM and continue using the board without giving a second
thought.

However, now having reads warnings about OST caps, I consider
recapping the board...