Hey guys, I just picked up an old Athlon motherboard (Chaintech 7AJA2) to build a vintage PC system around and noticed it had a leaking cap and a few others that appear to be bulging
It does boot up fine though, just finished installing Windows XP and it ran through a few 3dfx demos successfully (using a Voodoo3 3000 AGP card) but it does seem to have issues when I have more than one stick of RAM installed, should I also change out the little squat capacitors that are around the DIMM slots even though they appear fine?
And did I pick up the proper capacitors, I pretty much went by what they had in stock that was closest to size, temp, voltage and uF ratings but should I have also looked at low ESR ratings as well?
It does boot up fine though, just finished installing Windows XP and it ran through a few 3dfx demos successfully (using a Voodoo3 3000 AGP card) but it does seem to have issues when I have more than one stick of RAM installed, should I also change out the little squat capacitors that are around the DIMM slots even though they appear fine?
And did I pick up the proper capacitors, I pretty much went by what they had in stock that was closest to size, temp, voltage and uF ratings but should I have also looked at low ESR ratings as well?
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