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Originally posted by Wombat Why a replacement board? Why not just replace the capacitors? It used to be a common thing around here.
I actually contemplated that - heck, I know how to solder. Is it pretty straight-forward? I am assuming it's one of the 14 larger capacitors that's bad... but I can't quite tell what type of capacitor I need for replacement...
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You'll probably want to replace the whole series of filtering caps by the CPU socket.
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