First post, by Gabriel-LG
Last week, I bought a complete PC with a nice Asrock 939Dual-Sata2 motherboard, including a bunch of high end components of the era. 😀
However, the motherboard has some seriously bulging capacitors, so I would like to replace them, before I power up the board for the first time.
This will be my first recapping and I am not sure about the following two things:
Which capacitors to replace?
Obviously all the bad looking ones. Should I also replace the ones that look fine, but are of the same type and near the bad ones?
What about the smaller caps on the board? They all look fine, I assume they can stay, right?
What are good replacements?
Most of the bad capacitors (near the CPU) are Chemi-Con KZG 3300uF/6.3V and KZE 1200uF/6.3V. Can I replace them with Panasonic FR 3300uF/10V and FR 1200uF/25V?
I also found 2 bad OST RLP 1000uF/6.3V caps near the memory banks. Can they be replaced with Panasonic FR 1000/10v
I have some (limited) soldering experience, and access to professional equipment at my work. Any good advice is welcome.
btw. here is are pictures of the bad capacitors (they look worse in real life):