Hi, this is my first post here, and I have a few questions I'd like to have answered, which I marked with a **... it's going to be a long post, so I can get all the details out of the way, so please bear with me.
I attached pics to show my board and pointed to the capacitor in pic 1 and 2.
I just found out 2 days ago that 1 of the capacitors on my Soyo SY-P4I875P Dragon 2 Platinum board had a small amount of leakage of fluid from the top and the top bulged slightly... the board is running perfectly fine right now, and it's the only capacitor that shows signs of being bad, but I've had this board since 2003, and have had it as my PC mainboard since 2004 or early 2005... but in that time, I have hardly worked this board at all. Seriously, minecraft is the hardest I ever worked this board.
The capacitor that leaked is one of the large capacitors up above the processor that are in parallel with 5 others, and the voltages in my board's BIOS appear just fine and within tolerance, with the +5 being within .02V, which is what this 6.3V capacitor is obviously filtering.
See pic 1, 2, and 3... and click here for large close up view of pic 1:
http://www.motherboards.org/images/r.../1268_p2_1.jpg
The info I got off the capacitor shows it's a SACON SZ (305 date code), rated at 150 Celcius, and is 2200uF 6.3V. I'm not sure on measuring the height, if it's measured from top to bottom, or if you measure from top to the pressed in spot where the bottom plug is held in... but it's 10mm diameter and 24mm from top to bottom, and 20mm from top to the pressed in spot on the side of the canister. (see pic 4)
** To replace this one capacitor, what would be the best choice that would stand up to use and last a long time? I'm probably going to replace all 6 in that row, as well as others, but I gotta get more info for the others before asking about those... unless someone here already seen and knows what to use.
OK, some problems I have seen...
I have seen a BSOD a few times (After my vid card was done and got taken out), maybe 3, but this is over the course of 2 months... and I am sure 2 of those were from sata connectors coming loose from vibration, since they used to be kept in by the vid card's heat sink fan. Since this is my only PC right now, and need to use it, I am hoping that it will be OK if I keep using it for the week until I replace the capacitors.
** Will I be able to last a week with this cap being bad if everything's checking out OK right now, and I don't do much but use the net and chat? Voltages look fine and are within tolerances in BIOS, especially +5V at 4.98, and no signs of instability... runs just like it did since I built this, and the capacitor that leaked is in parallel with 5 others. None are even warm to the touch... they feel just as warm as my fingertips, if only slightly more... half a degree.
** There is more, though... about 7 weeks ago, my AGP video card just quit for no apparent reason... it was acting up and having crashing going on every once in awhile, then suddenly wouldn't get to windows without crashing for the same reason, with ati2dvag.dll infinity loop error, but only with drivers installed... and my card was being detected 8 times by the hardware manager and the new hardware wizard. Could this have been a result of these capacitors aging and causing a problem in my card?
Anyway... some extra stuff.
I read through this thread here, and I think I have almost the same stuff as this board, but I'm going to make sure tonight or tomorrow morning before I turn the PC on, and try to get all the main large capacitors that may be going bad due to age so I can get what I should replace and with what:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4564
The capacitors on my board are all SACON SZ series capacitors, but I don't see any oddity described where the vent is stamped after the sleeve is put on... I looked it over closely with the flashlight and clearly see a transparent sleeve and the vents go underneath it, showing no sign of being stamped on when I rub over any spot that appears to be so with a toothpick, and see it clearly where the vent runs under the black stripe... no marks.
** Also, I read something in another thread talking about capacitors stamped with a K style vent, and the guy said they are badly faked... I wanted to know what this K style vent signified (see pic 1 and 2 to see them). A certain smaller capacitor on my board all have this K style vent, while the largest have a sort of (>-<) shaped X style vent, and the smaller ones smaller than the K vent ones all have + style vents... the smallest have no visible vents.
Ok... sorry if I repeated myself a few times above. Now to list the capacitor that leaked.
So... what capacitor would be best for replacing this one, just so I can stay up and running long enough to get them all replaced?
I will look at my board and get the other capacitor values and list them all and ask which ones I should replace tomorrow sometime.
Thanks in advance for the help... at least let me know the best choice for this one capacitor, and if it would be ok to replace only that one and the 5 others in parallel with it temporarily.
I attached pics to show my board and pointed to the capacitor in pic 1 and 2.
I just found out 2 days ago that 1 of the capacitors on my Soyo SY-P4I875P Dragon 2 Platinum board had a small amount of leakage of fluid from the top and the top bulged slightly... the board is running perfectly fine right now, and it's the only capacitor that shows signs of being bad, but I've had this board since 2003, and have had it as my PC mainboard since 2004 or early 2005... but in that time, I have hardly worked this board at all. Seriously, minecraft is the hardest I ever worked this board.
The capacitor that leaked is one of the large capacitors up above the processor that are in parallel with 5 others, and the voltages in my board's BIOS appear just fine and within tolerance, with the +5 being within .02V, which is what this 6.3V capacitor is obviously filtering.
See pic 1, 2, and 3... and click here for large close up view of pic 1:
http://www.motherboards.org/images/r.../1268_p2_1.jpg
The info I got off the capacitor shows it's a SACON SZ (305 date code), rated at 150 Celcius, and is 2200uF 6.3V. I'm not sure on measuring the height, if it's measured from top to bottom, or if you measure from top to the pressed in spot where the bottom plug is held in... but it's 10mm diameter and 24mm from top to bottom, and 20mm from top to the pressed in spot on the side of the canister. (see pic 4)
** To replace this one capacitor, what would be the best choice that would stand up to use and last a long time? I'm probably going to replace all 6 in that row, as well as others, but I gotta get more info for the others before asking about those... unless someone here already seen and knows what to use.
OK, some problems I have seen...
I have seen a BSOD a few times (After my vid card was done and got taken out), maybe 3, but this is over the course of 2 months... and I am sure 2 of those were from sata connectors coming loose from vibration, since they used to be kept in by the vid card's heat sink fan. Since this is my only PC right now, and need to use it, I am hoping that it will be OK if I keep using it for the week until I replace the capacitors.
** Will I be able to last a week with this cap being bad if everything's checking out OK right now, and I don't do much but use the net and chat? Voltages look fine and are within tolerances in BIOS, especially +5V at 4.98, and no signs of instability... runs just like it did since I built this, and the capacitor that leaked is in parallel with 5 others. None are even warm to the touch... they feel just as warm as my fingertips, if only slightly more... half a degree.
** There is more, though... about 7 weeks ago, my AGP video card just quit for no apparent reason... it was acting up and having crashing going on every once in awhile, then suddenly wouldn't get to windows without crashing for the same reason, with ati2dvag.dll infinity loop error, but only with drivers installed... and my card was being detected 8 times by the hardware manager and the new hardware wizard. Could this have been a result of these capacitors aging and causing a problem in my card?
Anyway... some extra stuff.
I read through this thread here, and I think I have almost the same stuff as this board, but I'm going to make sure tonight or tomorrow morning before I turn the PC on, and try to get all the main large capacitors that may be going bad due to age so I can get what I should replace and with what:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4564
The capacitors on my board are all SACON SZ series capacitors, but I don't see any oddity described where the vent is stamped after the sleeve is put on... I looked it over closely with the flashlight and clearly see a transparent sleeve and the vents go underneath it, showing no sign of being stamped on when I rub over any spot that appears to be so with a toothpick, and see it clearly where the vent runs under the black stripe... no marks.
** Also, I read something in another thread talking about capacitors stamped with a K style vent, and the guy said they are badly faked... I wanted to know what this K style vent signified (see pic 1 and 2 to see them). A certain smaller capacitor on my board all have this K style vent, while the largest have a sort of (>-<) shaped X style vent, and the smaller ones smaller than the K vent ones all have + style vents... the smallest have no visible vents.
Ok... sorry if I repeated myself a few times above. Now to list the capacitor that leaked.
So... what capacitor would be best for replacing this one, just so I can stay up and running long enough to get them all replaced?
I will look at my board and get the other capacitor values and list them all and ask which ones I should replace tomorrow sometime.
Thanks in advance for the help... at least let me know the best choice for this one capacitor, and if it would be ok to replace only that one and the 5 others in parallel with it temporarily.
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