Hi,
I found myself with regular crashes ( several in one night over a 2 hour period ), I tried all the tweaks not realising it was a hardware issue not software, A helpful local engineer told me some caps had failed and advised I could repair, or upgrade, I began to read and found badcaps.
I found the two failed caps and ordered a full set of superior Panasonic replacements, just to say my solder technique is atrocious, but I took time and managed to get one cap secure but the other does have a little give
( generally NOT good).
Why post this, well my machine has posted first time and that was 2 weeks ago, and runs better now that it has for along long time, I bought the machine 2004. I conducted three Memtests, all proven passes. Id be interested to hear if the cap with a little give could still NOT be correctly connected to the board which may result in trouble at a later stage OR would it be fair ( or safe ) to say both replaced caps are integrating well with the board?
FYI , my 70W gas solder iron would not completely melt the solder and I was faced with catch22: scrap the board or use a 1mm drill bit to clean out the holes, I used the bit and got the above result BUT its your choice.
All the best ,
Berne
I found myself with regular crashes ( several in one night over a 2 hour period ), I tried all the tweaks not realising it was a hardware issue not software, A helpful local engineer told me some caps had failed and advised I could repair, or upgrade, I began to read and found badcaps.
I found the two failed caps and ordered a full set of superior Panasonic replacements, just to say my solder technique is atrocious, but I took time and managed to get one cap secure but the other does have a little give
( generally NOT good).
Why post this, well my machine has posted first time and that was 2 weeks ago, and runs better now that it has for along long time, I bought the machine 2004. I conducted three Memtests, all proven passes. Id be interested to hear if the cap with a little give could still NOT be correctly connected to the board which may result in trouble at a later stage OR would it be fair ( or safe ) to say both replaced caps are integrating well with the board?
FYI , my 70W gas solder iron would not completely melt the solder and I was faced with catch22: scrap the board or use a 1mm drill bit to clean out the holes, I used the bit and got the above result BUT its your choice.
All the best ,
Berne
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