On 10/23/2017 05:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/21/2017 11:09 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Which manufacturer made yours? What brand is the bad cap? How many of that type are on the board? If only one or a few alike and your eyes are still good, it might be fun to try DIY, something different anyway.
Hey Felix,
This is an Abit-KT7 board. Probably one of my longest running board ever. (although I have tried to boot the old 386/33 in a while). I've been tempted to try the cap replacement my self, but I have never experimented with a "solder sucker" and while I am handy with a soldering iron at the "wire level" (and I have fixed an few power-connector problem on Nvidia cards), I haven't dropped to the mirco-level of capacitors.
Any suggestions on a solder sucker? I always envisioned something like a baby-nostril sucker that has a heat-resistent tip where you melt the solder as best you can and suck the melted solder out of each prong solder hole and then solder a new cap in.
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