-=> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to SCOTT JONES <=-

 JH> Hello, Scott.  I overheard you talking with Matt about - -

 MM> If that Soyo has 11 bad ones, I bet they are the ones lined up behind
 MM> the CPU, in which case, "size _is_ important"!   :-))

 SJ> Got it in one.  They're clustered around the CPU and power supply
 SJ> connector.  Soyo M7VKD.  Like I said, this thing was free.  Plus I got
 SJ> a 1GHz Athlon, 768MB of RAM, a NIC and an extra video card along with
 SJ> it.

 JH> Please post later and tell how the job turned out.  Reason I ask -

Will do.  My wife's board only had two to replace, which was fairly easy.
I figure 11 will be more tedious than anything else.

Actually, it's going to be more than that.  My former (due to economy)
employer is now my current employer.  There's a mb that was left behind
by the former tech support monkey, exact same model with the same bad
caps.  One of our web designers is going to pay me to refurb that thing
and slap it into her machine.  Plus, there's another one that came out
of one of the office machines that needs three replaced.  If I can press
that back into service, all the better.

 JH> where I volunteer we have had donations of some of these newer boards
 JH> which have problems.  At least one Athlon board has a number of the
 JH> "self-indicator" bad caps on it.
 
If it's any help, all the bad caps I've seen have been 1000uF or higher,
manufactured by Luxon, on boards manufactured from about mid-2001 to early
2003.
 
 JH> We don't have anyone there willing to take on such a repair attempt,
 JH> but I might be able to offer to pass a few board(s) along to someone
 JH> willing to give them a try.

Like I said, it's not a difficult task.  Heck, except for these caps, I
never do component-level repairs, so I'm not exactly handy with a
soldering iron.  So, if *I* can do it, anyone can. ;)



Scott Jones (scott at exti dot net)
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