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Computer gave blue screen, and froze a couple of times, rebooted a couple of times and running fine again. I checked inside and found a small capacitor had popped on mainboard. It's a Core2 Quad Socket LGA 775 and a intel mainboard. Voltages are all correct in intel desktop utilities app. Is it safe to run it like this till I get hold of new mainboard? I know the mainboard might stop working altogether, but it's going to be replaced. I'm worried something else in pc gets damaged. |
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@waplinxs | 7 August 14 |
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Mainboard will be replaced on monday.
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@ndrau | 12 July 15 |
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Did something else pop ?
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@norega | 13 July 15 |
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If its running the and capacitor has blown you risk long term damage to the rest of the board. I have replaced dozens of blown out capacitors on electrical items including motherboards and graphics cards ,Its very easy and capacitors are cheap as chips
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@3mel | 13 July 15 |
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he asked nearly a year ago, I think it's taken care of by now
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@1clivey1 | 19 August 15 |
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yea if the cap has blown it stores the juice like a battery n will chain react
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@veronee | 19 August 15 |
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capacitors stores a certain amount of electric at a governed voltage, it will be marked on the capacitor like 35v and 200farrads etc etc. Running with a damaged capacitor means if the computer requests an extra boost of power, say when a fan winds up to speed, it comes from a capacitor. the stored energy is released, but the meantime the capacitor then fills back up.
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@waplinxs | 19 August 15 |
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Actually I'm still running the computer to this very day. Lol. It gives problems every so often. Drives have been clicking for almost a year now. I'm betting they are damaged from the problem with capacitor. When it finally all dies, if it ever does. I'm thinking I'll just have to get whole new computer
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@ungers | 24 August 15 |
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I'm only using laptops these days, but in the past I had to change a capcitor on my desktop.....NEVER try to desolder it.....the board is multi-layered, and too much heat can cause all kinds of problems....I used a side-cutter, and gently clipped away at the damaged cap...then I resoldered a new one onto the legs of the old one....
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@ungers | 24 August 15 |
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Cheap or improperly filled caps tend to burst at the top.....I used to give my mainboad a gentle dusting with a soft paintbrush, and inspected the board at the same time....
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@mok214 | 24 August 15 |
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When it comes to electronics, I never solder anything without using heat sinks. Surprise, heat sinks have been used for soldering long before computers came around.
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