On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Mike Hord wrote:

>> I've resurrected dozens of KT7 system boards by replacing the low
>> e.s.r. capacitors that have failed. Symptoms are system lockup, failure
>> to start/reboot, spontaneous reboot, etc. Once replaced, I've never had
>> another problem with any of the the boards again.
>
> Interesting.  How do you decide which cap needs replacing?  Or do
> you simply replace all the caps around the sockets in question?

They have a built-in marker: they look like they just exploded, because 
that's what they did. Some even fly off the board if the ripline stanped 
into the cap top does not give.

Peter
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