Another Example of Capacitor Plague and How to Fix It.

[ColbyCrossley]

I do computer repair on the side and, while I admire your efforts, I don't know why you would go to all the effort to repair a 10+ year old machine. All the machines I get with capacitor plague are old school HP, Compaq, IBM and Dell models from 1999-2001. I don't get why you'd go to all the effort of pulling capacitors and fixing 10-12 year old mobos (and corresponding CPUs). It's not worth it. The vast majority of users will be unhappy with an AMD Athlon K7 or Athlon XP today.

[CubeComputerChannel]

@ColbyCrossley Actually, the mid-aged woman who purchased this computer from me for about $100 is very happy with it. Sure, many people nowadays want a newer computer with faster processing speeds, more memory, and more storage, but there are a lot of people who cannot afford new PCs. Older computers like these still have plenty of capability in them for basic use. Their parts are easy to find, and I can rebuild these old machines and sell them for dirt cheap.You'd be surprised.

[NorthWeezy2010]

My LCD TV broke, and i need to replace some capacitors. Does i need electrolytic capacitors or different ones? or doesn't it matter???

[CubeComputerChannel]

@NorthWeezy2010 Some caps are electrolytic and others are polymer. If they failed, then chances are they're electrolytic. Replace them with quality electrolytics (of the same capacitance, and same or higher voltage) from Rubycon, Panasonic, Sanyo, SamXon, or Nippon-Chemicon, and you should be fine.

[Jerkwad152]

I bought a Compaq 6410NX back in 2002 with an Athlon XP 2000+, and it had this same board. In 2009, the same ten caps on the regulator started to swell up. So I junked that board and bought an Asus M4A785-M with a Phenom II X4 925. I found another AM37 board with brand-new caps for cheap, so I fixed that one up for my mother, and it's still plugging away for her.

[peterm3964]

Jap tech giants deliberately allowed a faulty capacitor recipe to be "stolen " .It was then used by Legitimate competitors in their caps . This is the cause of the plague . The plague also spread BACK to Japan manufactures and has caused trillions of dolars in damage to consumers products

[hello112100]

I've got a Compaq Like this one that is an Intel/ASUS board and its got Japanese Rubycon capacitors.

It seems to me that the AMD boards Compaq used Seem to suffer from Capacitor issues, probably as they are made by a cheaper supplier.

[CubeComputerChannel]

@hello112100 The3 manufacturer of this motherboard has seemed to use all sorts of different caps. The eMachines version have had Sanyos, and these HP/Compaq boards have had Nichicon, and Rubycon, and possible other brands.

[WizzoPro9476]

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