Re: P4B533 fan spins no post

OK. My P4S533 is recapped with Rubycons and it boots just fine.

Do you think there would be any benefit to add caps to the empty spots between the PCI slots? It's pretty easy to guess what their values should be as some PCI slots already have caps installed.

Re: P4B533 fan spins no post

willawake - After looking at the pic of your board from the link what I thought to be Rubycon caps (from the color) really are Tiacon. It's hard to read the caps while the board is installed but the vent (X v.s. K shaped) tells the story. Looks like what I thought were Rubycon are actually 5 - 3300uF 6.3v Tiacons.

I could not find suitable replacments in Rubycon MCZ so I'll have to go with Rubycon MBZ replacments on these.

Re: P4B533 fan spins no post

I too have the P4S533 with rubycon and taicon caps. This board has served me in various capacities for somewhere between 5 to 7 years now. It's final assignment is as a Media Server running unRAID. I'm up to 4TB of space right now and plan to push it to the unRAID max of 16TB. As you can imagine, I'm expecting this board to serve in this capacity for many years to come and continued reliability is extremely important to me.

Imagine my concern when I was inspecting the board last week and I noticed one of the tiacon caps bulging and leaking....