Greetings,
After numerous boot failures I finally checked the caps on the mobo and noticed than many had swelling and brown crust from leaking(wendell caps). I replaced all the caps that were 1000uf or larger. Also noticed that two caps in the power supply were leaking and replaced those.
Now the computer boots(usually) but the IDE seems to be funky. With one hard drive and two CD player/writers attached cottectly it will somtimes boot and show one or none of the CD players.
So I think I'm done playing with it. I am wondering if there are any known, still available, mobo's available from the 'dark ages' of bad capacitors that didn't have bad caps?? I have an Athlon XP CPU and PC2100 memory that runs fast enough for what I do and I'd like to just find another mobo to slap the old CPU and memory into.
Also, as I understand the problem with the bad caps started around 2000/2001 ? but how late could these little banes have found their way into computer products??
thanks,
scottw
After numerous boot failures I finally checked the caps on the mobo and noticed than many had swelling and brown crust from leaking(wendell caps). I replaced all the caps that were 1000uf or larger. Also noticed that two caps in the power supply were leaking and replaced those.
Now the computer boots(usually) but the IDE seems to be funky. With one hard drive and two CD player/writers attached cottectly it will somtimes boot and show one or none of the CD players.
So I think I'm done playing with it. I am wondering if there are any known, still available, mobo's available from the 'dark ages' of bad capacitors that didn't have bad caps?? I have an Athlon XP CPU and PC2100 memory that runs fast enough for what I do and I'd like to just find another mobo to slap the old CPU and memory into.
Also, as I understand the problem with the bad caps started around 2000/2001 ? but how late could these little banes have found their way into computer products??
thanks,
scottw
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