First post, by stlouis1
I have a pair of A7V266-E boards here that I acquired recently, both 1.07 revisions. Both had bad caps and I found a thread here on that topic which was useful in finding suitable replacement caps for the four 6.3v 3300uf nichicons that popped. I've only replaced those 4 capacitors on each board
Now the first one I never even tried to power on before replacing capacitors so I don't know if it's new behavior, but when I plug it in, I can see the power LED on the board light up, but if I jump the power button connectors, it does nothing at all. No fan spin, nothing.
The second board however, does power on, but just keeps giving me a continuous beep. A post card gives me a C2 code, all of which tells me it's a memory issue. All I have at hand is later PC3200 DDR and a single stick of PC2700. I've tried all of the DDR I have and the issue remains the same. I wonder if these boards were picky with ram? or maybe the board has another issue?
edit/// actually, I'm looking over the rest of the board, and this capacitor close to the memory seems a bit sideways. I half wonder if it popped from the bottom or if it was just soldered in a bit crooked during manufacturing. I wonder if I should replace it... I do have some rubicon yxs caps in stock that match the voltage and capacitance rating but not sure off the top if they'd be quite the right replacement
