Take apart the PSU and see what is going on inside, maybe it has blown caps as well, had that happen on a machine as well. PSU caps blew, and so did the caps on the board. I repaired numorus bad cap mobos before, as a matter of fact, the Epic Epson that I use for control had two bad caps, so I just replaced ALL them on the board!! And it is obvously it is repaired.
Based on their position, those are apparently the Vcore output caps, so I don't think the PSU took them out. The PSU would have killed the input caps, which appear to be fine (or at least they look that way in the video).
@yorgle11 This is the 2nd pc that's come to me like this, and the third one that dies was my own that it happened to. I am reexamining why they got blown. I think they were just bad caps.
I doubt the powersupply took out the caps. I have worked on many computers that have bad caps on the board but the powersupply still works. Usually they use cheaper caps on the systemboard then in the powersupply. So I would not rule out the powersupply as the cause.
This is a very common problem on mid-2000s computers. I had to junk a very similar Compaq which also had a dead power supply and dead motherboard in it. Even Dell had lots of problems with bad capacitors on their motherboards.
@vwestlife A friend told me that they made a LOT of capacitors that were mis-labeled and were built onto boards from that era, it affected a LOT of devices as well as computers. Another victim of bad math!
yeah mine is a dell deminsion 8200. 1.8 ghz P4, 68 MB rambus memmory, 40 Gb harddrive, nvidia gforce 2 mx 400 video card, soundblaster live, dvd rom, and cdrw drive. looks like that one has hyper threading and might be faster then mine.
@james42519 Maybe, I haven't looked up the specs for it, easy though, it's an HP a000 and it is probably listed on the website. Just looked, 2.8GHz. Single core, nothing special.
@nathanallan1 meant to say 768 MB ram BTW. yeah nothing special but it is double the speed as mine at least. hmm wonder if that would work in mine. only stuff i can find thrown out here is P2 computers it seems and those are not easy to find too.
@nathanallan1 don't know. it is the one that came in the dell 8200. it's alright though. don't think it would be worth doing that. i would like to find a motherboard a few years old and build a computer though. maybe be able to get the amd athlon x2 black edition 7750. guess see what used parts they have at a computer store when i have the money and stuff.
Take apart the PSU and see what is going on inside, maybe it has blown caps as well, had that happen on a machine as well. PSU caps blew, and so did the caps on the board. I repaired numorus bad cap mobos before, as a matter of fact, the Epic Epson that I use for control had two bad caps, so I just replaced ALL them on the board!! And it is obvously it is repaired.
hydrolisk1792 9 months ago
Based on their position, those are apparently the Vcore output caps, so I don't think the PSU took them out. The PSU would have killed the input caps, which appear to be fine (or at least they look that way in the video).
yorgle11 9 months ago
@yorgle11 This is the 2nd pc that's come to me like this, and the third one that dies was my own that it happened to. I am reexamining why they got blown. I think they were just bad caps.
nathanallan1 9 months ago
Your sound cuts out if you zoom. My mom has a very similar computer.
Tr3vor42532 9 months ago
I doubt the powersupply took out the caps. I have worked on many computers that have bad caps on the board but the powersupply still works. Usually they use cheaper caps on the systemboard then in the powersupply. So I would not rule out the powersupply as the cause.
chrisstv1979 9 months ago
@chrisstv1979 Right, I think this is a victim of just bad caps. Not the power supply (though it's probably bad, too, it's cheap).
nathanallan1 9 months ago
How'd you get that from Best Buy?
linuxlove4004 9 months ago
@linuxlove4004 oh, I didn't the person that ditched it did. Here's one they couldn't fix.
nathanallan1 9 months ago
This is a very common problem on mid-2000s computers. I had to junk a very similar Compaq which also had a dead power supply and dead motherboard in it. Even Dell had lots of problems with bad capacitors on their motherboards.
vwestlife 9 months ago
@vwestlife A friend told me that they made a LOT of capacitors that were mis-labeled and were built onto boards from that era, it affected a LOT of devices as well as computers. Another victim of bad math!
nathanallan1 9 months ago
yeah mine is a dell deminsion 8200. 1.8 ghz P4, 68 MB rambus memmory, 40 Gb harddrive, nvidia gforce 2 mx 400 video card, soundblaster live, dvd rom, and cdrw drive. looks like that one has hyper threading and might be faster then mine.
james42519 9 months ago
@james42519 Maybe, I haven't looked up the specs for it, easy though, it's an HP a000 and it is probably listed on the website. Just looked, 2.8GHz. Single core, nothing special.
nathanallan1 9 months ago
@nathanallan1 meant to say 768 MB ram BTW. yeah nothing special but it is double the speed as mine at least. hmm wonder if that would work in mine. only stuff i can find thrown out here is P2 computers it seems and those are not easy to find too.
james42519 9 months ago
@james42519 It might, what motherboard do you have? I can see if it is going to match up to your board. Maybe a trade is in order.
nathanallan1 9 months ago
@nathanallan1 don't know. it is the one that came in the dell 8200. it's alright though. don't think it would be worth doing that. i would like to find a motherboard a few years old and build a computer though. maybe be able to get the amd athlon x2 black edition 7750. guess see what used parts they have at a computer store when i have the money and stuff.
james42519 9 months ago
this looks like it looks better then mine but at least mine works.
james42519 9 months ago
@james42519 what can I say? It was a freebie, found out why.
nathanallan1 9 months ago
first to view cool vid thanks you :)
WinbookXL3 9 months ago