Epox 8K7A+ Repair

Why not,its only 14$ but are you sure about the capacitors?
"Frank Hahn" <fhahnisfake.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message
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 > Hello:
 >
 > Last week, I finally had the above board reach the point of not
 > completely booting. It would try and stop at various places. This was
 > on Linux, Windows 98 and 2000.
 >
 > From discussions here, it sounds as if it was the capacitors.
 >
 > I emailed Epox and received the following reply:
 >
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 > We can offer repair on the caps. There is a $14 S/H charge. Reply with
 > your address, phone# and I will process the repair.
 >
 > Note: Repair is for caps only - no other board problems if present will
 > be fixed (as its out of warranty).
 > --------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > My question is, is it worth the $14.00 to send it back for repair? I
 > have already ordered a replacement motherboard. If nothing else, it
 > would be a spare unit that could be used in place of two other systems
 > that I have.
 >
 > Thanks.
 >
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"Graham W" <graham.TakeThisOut@his.com.puterINVALID> wrote in news:RK7sb.7010$lm1.49234
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 > It's a personal judgement, Frank. But the service cost amounts to
 > what 20% - 25% of the cost of a new board? You imply that there are
 > two other 'spares' available so I think under the same circumstances
 > I would either save the $14 or put it towards another new board and
 > thus keep the inventory updated a bit.
 >
 > I don't think I would give $14 for a 2+ years old m/board if offered
 > unless I had memory and CPU which couldn't otherwise be utilised.
 > But it would be at the back of my mind to sell the box as a working
 > system to recover some cash to use for the update fund.
 >
If I repaired the board, it would just be a backup. I ordered another
Epox board to replace this one thinking that it would probably not get
fixed. I plan on just reusing everything that was in the machine that
failed. If this board does not work properly, I will look at the power
supply.

The failed board, has been fairly good (even though MS Windows 98 has
been poor). If I were to fix it, I would probably buy components for the
new board and put the old stuff back in a case with the 8K7A+ and use
that for my firewall (which is currently a 486 running Linux).

The machine that I have running now is one that I have had for several
years. It has an AMD K6 400mHz running in it (the board is an Asus TX97-
XE)

My other concern is that it is not the capacitors that have failed. If
it is something else, then I will be getting new capacitors on a
motherboard that has other problems. If it is the power supply, then I
won't know that untill I get the new motherboard. The power supply in
the machine that is running, is probably only a 200-250 Watt unit. I am
afraid it will not be able to power up the Epox 8K7A+ with the AMD 1.4
GHz processor. I may try this weekend with nothing else but a very bare
install. Just enough to get the system to boot and see if it still dies.

Thanks for the responses.

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If it is the "common" capacitor problem it is quite obvious. The capacitors
can visibly bulge or leak brown goo. My 8K7A+ has been singularly reliable
using several version of Windows, currently XP Pro. I have installed an
XP2100+ CPU and speed wise it almost equals a newer box with DDR333 RAM and
a XP2800 CUP for most work. I am keeping my eyes open for another s/h 8K7A+
as I would be happy to build another workhorse system if I can locate a
board. I have most of the other parts.

John

"Nitza666" <nitza666.DeleteThis@pathfinder.gr> wrote in message
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| Why not,its only 14$ but are you sure about the capacitors?
| "Frank Hahn" <fhahnisfake.DeleteThis@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message
| news:Xns942FE28582085fcjcnet@216.168.3.44...
| > Hello:
| >
| > Last week, I finally had the above board reach the point of not
| > completely booting. It would try and stop at various places. This was
| > on Linux, Windows 98 and 2000.
| >
| > From discussions here, it sounds as if it was the capacitors.
| >
| > I emailed Epox and received the following reply:
| >
| > --------------------------------------------------------------------
| > We can offer repair on the caps. There is a $14 S/H charge. Reply with
| > your address, phone# and I will process the repair.
| >
| > Note: Repair is for caps only - no other board problems if present will
| > be fixed (as its out of warranty).
| > --------------------------------------------------------------------
| >
| > My question is, is it worth the $14.00 to send it back for repair? I
| > have already ordered a replacement motherboard. If nothing else, it
| > would be a spare unit that could be used in place of two other systems
| > that I have.
| >
| > Thanks.
| >
| > --
| > Frank Hahn
|
|
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"John" <johndal DeleteThis @nospam.datafast.net.au> wrote in
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 > If it is the "common" capacitor problem it is quite obvious. The
 > capacitors can visibly bulge or leak brown goo. My 8K7A+ has been
 > singularly reliable using several version of Windows, currently XP
 > Pro. I have installed an XP2100+ CPU and speed wise it almost equals a
 > newer box with DDR333 RAM and a XP2800 CUP for most work. I am keeping
 > my eyes open for another s/h 8K7A+ as I would be happy to build
 > another workhorse system if I can locate a board. I have most of the
 > other parts.
 >
I have about 15 of them (both large and small) with a dried brownish rust
colored material on the top of them. There is not very much there.
There are others where the top is expanded out. There are a few where
they are flat on top (I assume this is how they typically are suppose to
look).

I am surprised that you have that fast of a processor installed in this
board. I didn't think they handle ones that fast.

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You can run a XP2400+ in them.
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At the time I upgraded, Athlons were in short supply, The fastest I could
get at a fair price was the 2100, (my board is a rev 1.0). I think rev 1.0
is cleared by Epox to 2200 and rev 1.1 a little faster.

Yes, you have the common capacitor problem, which was a bad batch bought by
a number of board manufacturers, not only Pox. My board was one of the first
and I think was possibly before the trouble. It is not a very difficult job
to replace the capacitors. Getting suitable types can be a little tricky,
the rest is just care.
John

"Todd" <nospam RemoveThis @abc.net> wrote in message
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| You can run a XP2400+ in them.
|
|
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Previously Frank Hahn <fhahnisfake.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
 > Hello:

 > Last week, I finally had the above board reach the point of not
 > completely booting. It would try and stop at various places. This was
 > on Linux, Windows 98 and 2000.

 > From discussions here, it sounds as if it was the capacitors.

Look at them. "Exploded" caps look like they where leaking or have
overpreassure. If it is the caps, $14 is likely worth it.

Arno
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