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First post, by SufferWell1396

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Hello, all! I've recently purchased a Tualatin with an on chip adapter https://www.ebay.com/itm/281238323137 for use with my ASUS CUV4x. I've also installed the modified BIOS found here Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

The board is not stable at the rated 1266 MHz and will fail to boot at 1.4, 1.45, and 1.5V. At 950MHz and 1.45V, it's possible to get into Windows, but as soon as you do anything remotely intensive the system hangs. I've monitored temps and the chip is never going over 45C, at least reported by the board itself.

Has anyone had any experience with these chips? Any recommendations?

Reply 1 of 5, by LoStSOul

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maybe some capacitor with problem

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Reply 2 of 5, by SufferWell1396

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Would the board potentially have bad caps even if they're not showing signs of wear? I've never recapped before but have a good friend that can help me, and I know the CUV4X is known to have caps issues (alongside everything else in the P3 era). I took the board out today to clean it and there was no leaking or bulging, but I suppose that doesn't necessarily mean one or two haven't gone bad.

Reply 3 of 5, by Archer57

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This hardware is old enough at this point that any caps, defective or not, can be bad. If you have a reasonable suspicion probably the only way to be 100% sure is to do some "exploratory surgery" - desolder a cap or two and check them in a tester.

In my experience if they look fine they are often fine, but not always - i've seen completely dead caps with no visual indications...

Reply 4 of 5, by SufferWell1396

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I think that has to be the issue here. I've added nothing new and the system will randomly completely lock up - now even after replacing the Tualatin with the Coppermine it originally had. With that in mind, is there a good resource for what caps I might need? Where should I get them from?

Reply 5 of 5, by LoStSOul

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my last order of components was from mouser.
Memory errors, cpu errors are most the time caused by bad capacitors. "it runs fine with 1 stick of ram, add another and crashes, freeze.."

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