Cyrix200+ wrote:

I picked up this beast yesterday. The case weighs a tonne! Thick steel everywhere. Nice quality. […]
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I picked up this beast yesterday. The case weighs a tonne! Thick steel everywhere. Nice quality.

The board would not post with a video card in the AGP or top PCI slot, upon further inspection I found:

So I've got some work to do if I want to use this board 😀

Am I missing something here? I just see a slightly bulging cap. But it shouldn't stop you from using AGP or first PCI?

dexvx wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I picked up this beast yesterday. The case weighs a tonne! Thick steel everywhere. Nice quality. […]
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I picked up this beast yesterday. The case weighs a tonne! Thick steel everywhere. Nice quality.

The board would not post with a video card in the AGP or top PCI slot, upon further inspection I found:

So I've got some work to do if I want to use this board 😀

Am I missing something here? I just see a slightly bulging cap. But it shouldn't stop you from using AGP or first PCI?

Dying/leaking/etc caps can cause instability with certain parts of the motherboards. I've got an ECS motherboard with similar symptoms that I think may need a recap soon.

cj_reha wrote:

Dying/leaking/etc caps can cause instability with certain parts of the motherboards. I've got an ECS motherboard with similar symptoms that I think may need a recap soon.

Interesting, I've had a board with much worse caps (browning) and it can post and do 3D, but crash.

Also got these in, Canopus Spectra 5400R2 and 5400PE, TNT2 and TNT2 Ultra.

dexvx wrote:

Interesting, I've had a board with much worse caps (browning) and it can post and do 3D, but crash. […]
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cj_reha wrote:

Dying/leaking/etc caps can cause instability with certain parts of the motherboards. I've got an ECS motherboard with similar symptoms that I think may need a recap soon.

Interesting, I've had a board with much worse caps (browning) and it can post and do 3D, but crash.

Also got these in, Canopus Spectra 5400R2 and 5400PE, TNT2 and TNT2 Ultra.

*sploosh*

As far as the caps. I had a precision 670 that ran stable for 3-4 years with really bad caps. I've also got an IBM x series server somewhere with caps just as bad. (Obvious brown leakage on top) But it runs fine whenever I decide to power it up. One of these days i'll cap a few mobos with my hakko.

dexvx wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

Dying/leaking/etc caps can cause instability with certain parts of the motherboards. I've got an ECS motherboard with similar symptoms that I think may need a recap soon.

Interesting, I've had a board with much worse caps (browning) and it can post and do 3D, but crash.

I know for a fact I had to replace any Licon cap on my QDI Advance 10B/E/F. They were visually fine but the board wouldn't POST most of the times (or lock up if it did). I replaced them with OST RLX caps and it POSTs and runs fine since then.

PcBytes wrote:

dexvx wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

Dying/leaking/etc caps can cause instability with certain parts of the motherboards. I've got an ECS motherboard with similar symptoms that I think may need a recap soon.

Interesting, I've had a board with much worse caps (browning) and it can post and do 3D, but crash.

I know for a fact I had to replace any Licon cap on my QDI Advance 10B/E/F. They were visually fine but the board wouldn't POST most of the times (or lock up if it did). I replaced them with OST RLX caps and it POSTs and runs fine since then.

Curious, so how did you conclude it was the caps fault? I would not have suspected that slightly bulged cap, much less a cap that looks fine.

The VP6 uses Jackson caps, which are a known bad cap. In the case of my VP6 it is not the tops that blew out, but the bottoms. You cant even tell unless you desolder them.

meljor wrote:

Nice! Now i finally know what board is inside 😎

I asked the seller if he could check the brand/type of the motherboard but he never answered, i wondered if it would be a tualatin capable board..

Still a nice setup and hopefully you can fix it.

I was silently hoping for a Tualatin-capable board, but those are quite rare as you know. I think our country adopted the Pentium 4 early. I used to have a MSI 694D in the past, I will use this VP6 to recreate that PC.

meljor wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I picked up this beast yesterday. The case weighs a tonne! Thick steel everywhere. Nice quality.

Inside: An Abit VP6 with two Pentium III 1GHZ CPU's

So you picked it up in the end, The seller didn't want to post it only pick up 😠
happens alot to the stuff I want as its to far away from me....

It's a LTD-122. I have not tested it yet, but the drive makes some noise when I tilt it, like here is something broken off inside 🙁

gdjacobs wrote:

That looks like it might have a Lite-On LTD163. That's a far better drive than the Kenwood (although a little noisier than some others).

Since those two slots don't work, I guessed that this cap might be the cause. I will only know for sure after it is replaced.

dexvx wrote:

Am I missing something here? I just see a slightly bulging cap. But it shouldn't stop you from using AGP or first PCI?

Cyrix200+ wrote:

meljor wrote:

Nice! Now i finally know what board is inside 😎

I asked the seller if he could check the brand/type of the motherboard but he never answered, i wondered if it would be a tualatin capable board..

Still a nice setup and hopefully you can fix it.

I was silently hoping for a Tualatin-capable board, but those are quite rare as you know. I think our country adopted the Pentium 4 early. I used to have a MSI 694D in the past, I will use this VP6 to recreate that PC.

Love the MSI 694D, it works well with Tualatins if you have or the adapters or the modded Tualatins. Unfortunatly mine works now a bit flaky so I guess it's also time to replace caps since 4 started bulging..

This Geforce 2 GTS came finally here, i noticed the box where it came was really big (enough to fit a motherboard there), the card was inside of an antistatic bag and the whole inside of the box cushioned

dexvx wrote:

Curious, so how did you conclude it was the caps fault? I would not have suspected that slightly bulged cap, much less a cap that looks fine.

Simple. The board would rarely POST or lock up (if it would POST) during RAM counting.

I also have a Tyan S2507T, which is Tualatin capable. That one also has bulging caps, but works like a charm. I should re-cap them together, probably cheaper to buy more parts at the same time. I should check to see if they use the same caps, but there are many different shapes and sizes.

Oh and I remember that I also have a GeForce 4 Ti4200 that needs new caps.

Nvm1 wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

meljor wrote:

Nice! Now i finally know what board is inside 😎

I asked the seller if he could check the brand/type of the motherboard but he never answered, i wondered if it would be a tualatin capable board..

Still a nice setup and hopefully you can fix it.

I was silently hoping for a Tualatin-capable board, but those are quite rare as you know. I think our country adopted the Pentium 4 early. I used to have a MSI 694D in the past, I will use this VP6 to recreate that PC.

Love the MSI 694D, it works well with Tualatins if you have or the adapters or the modded Tualatins. Unfortunatly mine works now a bit flaky so I guess it's also time to replace caps since 4 started bulging..

Ah yes, the seller told me about someone who wanted it shipped 'down south'. I decided it was worth to drive about an hour, and then an hour back to get it. Not my best buy, also not my worst 😉

I prefer shipping also, my time is more valuable than the shipping costs to me. This system would not have survived shipping though. I think it weighs almost 20 kgs.

Richo wrote:

meljor wrote:

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I picked up this beast yesterday. The case weighs a tonne! Thick steel everywhere. Nice quality.

Inside: An Abit VP6 with two Pentium III 1GHZ CPU's

So you picked it up in the end, The seller didn't want to post it only pick up 😠
happens alot to the stuff I want as its to far away from me....

Postman just brought me this piece of hardware.
Boxed GUS Classic clone made by Primax. Soundstorm M16-C.

Everyone else has more GUS than me..

appiah4 wrote:

Everyone else has more GUS than me..

I have 0 GUS. Do you have 0 GUS as well?

cyclone3d wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Everyone else has more GUS than me..

I have 0 GUS. Do you have 0 GUS as well?

By that logic, appiah4 probably owes someone a GUS, so -1 GUS there.