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.

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[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.