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First post, by AlucarD86

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I got my hands on an old Mini ATX Mainboard the MS6156, and not surprisingly it wouldn’t turn on since it was laying dormant for decades I guess. I did a general inspection and it seems some caps are brownish corroded at the top an bulging. I dealt with bad caps before so I tried the hair dryer trick by heating up the board and caps for around 5 Min in circular motion and the good news is the board came alive after that, now I still have to switch out those bad caps and I was wondering does anybody have some good cap recommendations or experience with this particular board? I did a layout of all the caps in the screenshot below.

PC Setup: Mainboard ASUS CUBX | CPU Intel Pentium III-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz | Memory 780 MB SDRam | Soundcard Creative SB Audigy SB0160 | GPUs Nvidia FX5900 Ulta Matrox M3D PCI | HDD 2x40 GB WD/Seagate | OS Win98SE and WinXPSP1 in dual boot

Reply 1 of 1, by majestyk

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You should take special care of the ones in the red box:

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I can recommend the Rubycon ZLS, ZLJ or ZLH series, or similar ones from Panasonic.

The remaining electrolytics are less critical, some general purpose "low ESR" types will do.