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Article #91Re: Crisis in Japan: defective electro caps round the world
From: Kris Shaw
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:27
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:27
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On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 06:05:28 +0000 (UTC), <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> said to us: >They are generally not that difficult to take out. >When I was testing my motherboard caps (after a ESR problem in the PSU caps), >I only had a problem removing one out of 40 or so. >It even worked afterwards. I've just had replaced 5 caps on my MSI motherboard. The computer started to freeze when web sites with flash content came up and then a few hours later started to freeze when simply scrolling a window. After re-installing and checking drivers problem still existed. Then started changing video cards etc. Finally took the MB out and spotted a cap next to the cpu had started to leak. Looking closer a few more had bulging tops. Not knowing if replacing the caps would fix the problem I got a few replacements and had the suspect caps changed. The MB now works again so happy! On reflection I should have had all the caps changed - but I didn't want to risk the board getting damaged. The faulty caps were 1000uF 6.3 Luxon. Rated quite low I think, because they were near all the 5v stuff. Couldn't get 6.3v caps (well, didn't look that hard) and the 10v replacements work fine. Kris
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