CD32 and the capacitors (from hell)

[FOL]

Originally Posted by laser

of course not but anyone can get the idea of Gigabyte and replace all the electrolytic caps inserted on any Amiga mobo
solid caps will lasts forever....
mmm...nothing lasts forever...
solid caps will work for a long time without any kind of problems

lol, thats the biggest load of rubbish I have every heard. Want my Gigabyte dual bios board with buldged and leaking caps, .

Standard Electrolytic caps very rarely go faulty. Its only the SMD versions that play up after time. Plus the cutting back on tempreture specs.

[Matt020]

Originally Posted by NGF

Hello everybody!

Yesterday the sound on my cd32 started to break up in one of the channels and then half of the sound completely died. When opening it up I managed to locate to problem: leaking capacitor (marked with red ring in the picture). I substituted it with a cable and managed to get full sound again. Since I don't know much about electronics I don't know what this will do to the machine in the long run, but I guess it's not recommended. But what will happend? What capacitors can I replace it with?

I also wonder about the two large capacitors next to the powercable. They look like they are going to explode, should these be replaced as well and with what kind of capacitors if so, have anyone done this?

BTW the picture is not from my motherboard but it's the same rev3 model.

There's so many capacitor's on the board... and they all "appear" OK. How did you work out that it was that one (marked in red) that was the problem??

[FOL]

Originally Posted by Matt020

There's so many capacitor's on the board... and they all "appear" OK. How did you work out that it was that one (marked in red) that was the problem??

Proberly, changed them 1 by 1, until he found the leaking / faulty 1.

Im guessing that pic is just a general pic, which was used to point to the cap.