Re: This seems odd...

It kinda sucks that I had to roll with Jackcon and NTE replacements but I guess I will see how they hold up...

I only have ONE other rant about this comp besides the inferior caps. It seems the hard drive manufacturer decided to use the cheesiest, cheapest, crappiest plastic on the face of the planet when they made the SATA connector. It snapped with absolutely no hesitation. Thankfully the pins themselves are fine and the hard drive works but it looks like I'll have to glue the SATA cable to the hard drive LMAO

Re: This seems odd...

Not sure which of the two was the culprit but after replacing both, The system boots normally...

Good call to those who suggested the start up caps. I find it interesting that 5 other caps in the PSU showed signs of failure but the ones that were the REAL culprit showed no visible signs of failure.

Re: This seems odd...

I see a 47mf 50v and a 100mf 25v

Of course the 47/50 is buried in grey glue....

I'll see if I can source those tomorrow. They're right in the middle of the PSU, where I found the heat seems to be affecting the start up.

Also, soldering it up did not work.

Re: This seems odd...

The computer is an HP Pavilion s7600n slimline, by the way.

I'm investigating myself, I have the whole computer sitting on the floor, in pieces, running. I can confirm that it is indeed the power supply, I took the cover off and blasted it directly. It does indeed fire up just fine when the power supply is hot. I'm thinking about letting it cool down and possibly focusing the heat on one particular area to narrow it down a bit...


Furthermore, I swapped the single core AMD Athlon 64 processor out for a dual core version and the...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello, I ran into this forum recently looking around for possibilities of fixing a little flea market gem I got my hands on. I've been reading around a lot on here and this place is a plethora of knowledge concerning anything capacitors. I've done quite a bit of recapping myself mostly unguided in my endeavors, so this site seems like quite a bit of help.

I've always been fascinated with anything electronic and I always feel great when I'm able to make a small tweak and save something nice from the trash can. I like...

I have an HP Slimline desktop PC I caught for a whopping $20 with a no power issue. After recapping the mobo and MOST of the PSU[the only caps I didn't replace were two 200v 220mf, they seemed fine], it would still not power on. AS soon as I plug the PSU into the mobo the green light on the PSU cut off. Searched around a bit and ran into this thread

[url]http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware/no-power-and-green-light-on-my-hp-pavilion-is-flashing/td-p/693875/page/7[/url]

One of the suggestions was to blast the psu with a hair dryer. Seemed silly but what the...

Re: DPS-160QB "Slimeline" Power Supply

Just grabbed one of these with a no power issue for a cool $20!!! There were swollen caps on the motherboard AND in the power supply. Time for a trip to Priestcain Electronics!