First post, by X3J11
I recently bought a "new"/unused KT7A-RAID v1 motherboard as a present for myself for my birthday. It was one of the many bits of hardware I've owned in years gone that I thoughtlessly discarded long ago, and which I've sought to reacquire. It's kind of been my holy grail motherboard straddling the DOS/98 to XP days.
Now before I even think of plugging it in, I'd like to recap the board. However, I'm largely ignorant of the subject, and am looking for advice on what capacitors I should use. My Googling has led to years old posts discussing capacitor series that have long since been discontinued.
Browsing through DigiKey's site is overwhelming when one doesn't know exactly what they're looking for. Does anyone have any suggestions for what series of electrolytic caps one would use for fixing up a board nowadays? And what would one use for the Low ESR marked caps; my understanding it that they're not all that common any more as manufacturers switched to polymers (which, from what I gather, are not ideal for boards of this vintage).