Ahhh. That's better.

[growler_south]

As good as Better than new. Nice shiny new capacitors, and the machine booted straight up without complaint. Unsurprisingly, it's more stable than it has been for a month.

Comments

Capacitance

[pink-halen.livejournal.com]

I love a man with capacitance and a bit of a charge!

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

Go you!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Excellent job. It's not unusual for it to be more stable than it's been in a while (or since new), since the caps degrade over time and leave the cpu with dirty power. The PC I am using now needed four new caps, the old ones blew their top vents. I knew something was up since the PC started acting up and getting worse over time. A peek in the side window confirmed it. Toughest part was trying to track down suitable replacement caps!

The latest mobos use several tiny (820uF, 2.5 volt) low ESR caps rather than a few 2200-3300uF ones like these. The inverter frequency has been raised as well, with three, four or even eight phase inverters to provide the juice to the power hungry processors. The power supplies have become very complex, even on an entry level PC. Too bad they become obsolete so fast.

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

The rest of the motherboard is covered in low ESR capacitors- there must have been 20 or so in there, and I'm very glad it wasnt one of them that blew... besides having to track replacements down and pay through the nose for them, it would have taken hours to replace them all!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

It's actually worth it to try and lay your hands on newer defective motherboards that are being tossed out by a shop for the capacitors. I will often pull good parts from otherwise bad boards in order to have them on hand for quick fixit jobs like what you just did.

[querrelle.livejournal.com]

Impressed!

[mikeybill.livejournal.com]

I don't understand this language, but it looks real pretty ;-)