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It appears that my Epox 8RDA+ has issues with "bad caps" on thos little transistors near the cpu. I am looking to get another board. My question is using the 754 socket, (a friend gave me an sempron AMD 64 XP2800+), what board would you recommend? I also have 2 sticks of kingston hyper X 2700, (333), that I wish to use as well. I'm not too familiar with the AMD 64 platform, and I don't know if my memory would work with it. Do you have any advice? Thanks. RF |
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RF wrote:
Hello, It appears that my Epox 8RDA+ has issues with "bad caps" on thos little transistors near the cpu. I am looking to get another board. My question is using the 754 socket, (a friend gave me an sempron AMD 64 XP2800+), what board would you recommend? I also have 2 sticks of kingston hyper X 2700, (333), that I wish to use as well. I'm not too familiar with the AMD 64 platform, and I don't know if my memory would work with it. I've been using a MSI K8MM-ILSR which has socket 754 with on-board graphics, LAN, 6 channel audio and Firewire. I'm using DD400 memory, so am not sure about the 333. The graphics shares 64M of the RAM, and is fine for anything but fast games. I run WinXPx64 with no problems except for finding drivers. All in all it's a good board for the price. It runs WinXP 32bit, which I dual boot, as well as any CPU of its speed. -- Virg Wall, P.E. |
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:01:02 +0000, RF wrote:
It appears that my Epox 8RDA+ has issues with "bad caps" on thos little transistors near the cpu. I am looking to get another board. My question is using the 754 socket, (a friend gave me an sempron AMD 64 XP2800+), what board would you recommend? I also have 2 sticks of kingston hyper X 2700, (333), that I wish to use as well. I'm not too familiar with the AMD 64 platform, and I don't know if my memory would work with it. Do you have any advice? Your ram will work. As for a board, don't know what you want. About any would work ok if you don't plan on overclocking much. ASRock K8Ugrade-NF3 would be a good cheap choice. -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php |
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:01:02 GMT, "RF" wrote:
Hello, It appears that my Epox 8RDA+ has issues with "bad caps" on thos little transistors near the cpu. I am looking to get another board. My question is using the 754 socket, (a friend gave me an sempron AMD 64 XP2800+), what board would you recommend? I also have 2 sticks of kingston hyper X 2700, (333), that I wish to use as well. I'm not too familiar with the AMD 64 platform, and I don't know if my memory would work with it. Do you have any advice? Thanks. RF Too bad about those multi-layer boards requiring professional soldering and desoldering gear... Tom |
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:47:56 GMT, Tom MacIntyre
wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:01:02 GMT, "RF" wrote: Hello, It appears that my Epox 8RDA+ has issues with "bad caps" on thos little transistors near the cpu. I am looking to get another board. My question is using the 754 socket, (a friend gave me an sempron AMD 64 XP2800+), what board would you recommend? I also have 2 sticks of kingston hyper X 2700, (333), that I wish to use as well. I'm not too familiar with the AMD 64 platform, and I don't know if my memory would work with it. Do you have any advice? Thanks. RF Too bad about those multi-layer boards requiring professional soldering and desoldering gear... Nonsense. Have you tried it? If so and you failed, I suggest a bit more practice as it's relatively easy to replace a few caps with a moderately high-wattage pencil iron, no special tools or desoldering gear at all. Many surface mount parts aren't that bad either if one has experience soldering small parts. |
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Do you have any advice?
Thanks. RF Too bad about those multi-layer boards requiring professional soldering and desoldering gear... Nonsense. Have you tried it? If so and you failed, I suggest a bit more practice as it's relatively easy to replace a few caps with a moderately high-wattage pencil iron, no special tools or desoldering gear at all. Many surface mount parts aren't that bad either if one has experience soldering small parts. I did a lot of that sort of thing at Heathkit, where we went through pounds of solder each week. The key is a big, hot iron. The board can handle a good bit of heat for a short time, and a 75W iron does less damage than a wimpy-ass 25w iron. Make sure the tip is clean and tinned well. Then, you need one of those bulb solder suckers to clean the hole. With most of those caps, you can heat both leads at the same time, then whack the board on the table. The cap will fly out, and cleaning the hole is easy. Done it a million.........no, a BILLION times. ;-) -John O |
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:51:03 GMT, kony wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:47:56 GMT, Tom MacIntyre wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:01:02 GMT, "RF" wrote: Hello, It appears that my Epox 8RDA+ has issues with "bad caps" on thos little transistors near the cpu. I am looking to get another board. My question is using the 754 socket, (a friend gave me an sempron AMD 64 XP2800+), what board would you recommend? I also have 2 sticks of kingston hyper X 2700, (333), that I wish to use as well. I'm not too familiar with the AMD 64 platform, and I don't know if my memory would work with it. Do you have any advice? Thanks. RF Too bad about those multi-layer boards requiring professional soldering and desoldering gear... Nonsense. Have you tried it? If so and you failed, I suggest a bit more practice as it's relatively easy to replace a few caps with a moderately high-wattage pencil iron, no special tools or desoldering gear at all. Many surface mount parts aren't that bad either if one has experience soldering small parts. I worked in consumer electronics repair for a number of years, quite successfully. My soldering skills were above average. A Soldapult sucker just can't cut it. Tom |
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Not true; the electrolytic caps, which are the problem, can be dealt
with using an old fashioned soldering iron. They are still "thru-hole" mount. Tom MacIntyre wrote: Too bad about those multi-layer boards requiring professional soldering and desoldering gear... Tom |
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:03:13 GMT, "John O"
wrote: Have you tried it? If so and you failed, I suggest a bit more practice as it's relatively easy to replace a few caps with a moderately high-wattage pencil iron, no special tools or desoldering gear at all. Many surface mount parts aren't that bad either if one has experience soldering small parts. I did a lot of that sort of thing at Heathkit, where we went through pounds of solder each week. The key is a big, hot iron. The board can handle a good bit of heat for a short time, and a 75W iron does less damage than a wimpy-ass 25w iron. Make sure the tip is clean and tinned well. Then, you need one of those bulb solder suckers to clean the hole. Agreed, though I use 45W. 30W "might" work with a stubby enough tip. A solder sucker does well but in a pinch one can just use a pick or needle to ream out the hole while reheating it, or even a circuit board drill bit to drill a hole. With most of those caps, you can heat both leads at the same time, then whack the board on the table. The cap will fly out, and cleaning the hole is easy. Done it a million.........no, a BILLION times. ;-) I'd be careful about wacking boards, lots of surface mount parts these days and the board is bound to flex some. I usually wack the boards only if I'm cannibalizing one, taking a pencil torch to the back to get several things off at once. |
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:02:37 GMT, Tom MacIntyre
wrote: Have you tried it? If so and you failed, I suggest a bit more practice as it's relatively easy to replace a few caps with a moderately high-wattage pencil iron, no special tools or desoldering gear at all. Many surface mount parts aren't that bad either if one has experience soldering small parts. I worked in consumer electronics repair for a number of years, quite successfully. My soldering skills were above average. A Soldapult sucker just can't cut it. Well I've replaced caps on far too many boards to count, if all one has is a 30+W iron w/good tip and a roll of solder, it can be done... let alone with more equipment. Depending on how experienced the person is, it might not look as good but a little extra flux can help too. |
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