[H-GEN] Capacitor replacement on motherboard

[Andrew Pullin]

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Hi Patrick,
    Sorry to hear about your woes. Any TV Repair place could do what you are
describing. I am not sure they would guarantee the work since there may be
more damage, but it couldn't hurt. I would suggest getting your own
replacement parts, since TV Repairers will charge you about $5 for a 25c
part some times. They will probably charge $5-10 to do the unsolder and
replacement for you. Dick Smith Electronics or any other Electronics part
shop should have the parts in stock.

    I would also strongly suggest that when it is repaired, I would test it
out with OLD parts, i.e. video card, network card etc. The reason for this
is that if the capacitors were just old and went like that (unlikely but
possible), you may be lucky and have a salvageable motherboard, however if
it was caused by something else (power surge or such like and far more
likely) you may have other damage. In short - I wouldn't be using this
system for anything mission critical any more.

    I don't know what may have happened in this case, but it could be the
symptoms of a worse problem like a power supply malfunction or breakdown, in
which case you may have fried anything important, so if you get the machine
working again it may be worthwhile to just use it as a diskless workstation
with minimal components just in case the power supply does go and take out
every component with it. Hope this has helped.
    Cheers!
        Andrew.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Nichols" <pat at mutton.humbug.org.au>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:47 AM
Subject: [H-GEN] Capacitor replacement on motherboard


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> Hi all,
>
> I arrived home last night to find my server was non responsive (black
> screen, fans/drives spinning, no network response), and in a non-stable
> frame of mind.
>
> I moved all the peripherals over to another machine and got myself back
> online, and proceeded to investigate why my abit bp6 wasn't behaving
> nicely any more.
>
> The large capacitors on the motherboard (1500uf, 6.2V) are swollen, and
> have brown ooze coming out of the top of them just like in the pictures
> at:
>
>   http://home.att.net/~garyheadlee/index.html
>
> I'm guessing putting some new capacitors on the board like this guy offers
> will solve the problem.
>
> Does anybody know anybody in Brisbane or Australia that performs this task
> for a reasonable amount?  Or is anybody confident enough with a soldering
> iron to perform this repair for me?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Patrick Nichols
>
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