Hi

I have a Radeon 8500 video card that's about 3 years old.

A couple of the larger capacitors are bulging and have a slight yellow
discharge.

How risky is it to continue using the thing? It has a massive heatsink that
I've added to each side of the card it the caps blow.

The motherboard won't be so lucky I suppose.

If I were to get my TV repair man or other to replace those large caps,
would the smaller ones need doing also?

I've upgraded quite a few components in this thing lately and look like
buying a new system in parts the way things are going

Replace the card? Can't afford to/not to.

Thanks

Darren

if its still all working replace the caps
try source the 105 c ones

"Darren" wrote in message
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Hi

I have a Radeon 8500 video card that's about 3 years old.

A couple of the larger capacitors are bulging and have a slight yellow
discharge.

How risky is it to continue using the thing? It has a massive heatsink
that
I've added to each side of the card it the caps blow.

The motherboard won't be so lucky I suppose.

If I were to get my TV repair man or other to replace those large caps,
would the smaller ones need doing also?

I've upgraded quite a few components in this thing lately and look like
buying a new system in parts the way things are going

Replace the card? Can't afford to/not to.

Thanks

Darren

Thanks

I'll see if my TV repair man will do it as I don't think my iron or I are up
to it.

Darren

"sideshow bob" wrote in message
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if its still all working replace the caps
try source the 105 c ones

"Darren" wrote in message
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Hi

I have a Radeon 8500 video card that's about 3 years old.

A couple of the larger capacitors are bulging and have a slight yellow
discharge.

How risky is it to continue using the thing? It has a massive heatsink
that
I've added to each side of the card it the caps blow.

The motherboard won't be so lucky I suppose.

If I were to get my TV repair man or other to replace those large caps,
would the smaller ones need doing also?

I've upgraded quite a few components in this thing lately and look like
buying a new system in parts the way things are going

Replace the card? Can't afford to/not to.

Thanks

Darren

"Darren" wrote in message
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Hi

I have a Radeon 8500 video card that's about 3 years old.

A couple of the larger capacitors are bulging and have a slight yellow
discharge.

How risky is it to continue using the thing? It has a massive heatsink
that
I've added to each side of the card it the caps blow.

The motherboard won't be so lucky I suppose.

If I were to get my TV repair man or other to replace those large caps,
would the smaller ones need doing also?

I've upgraded quite a few components in this thing lately and look like
buying a new system in parts the way things are going

Replace the card? Can't afford to/not to.

Thanks

Darren




Replace the electrolytic caps, it's easy and cheap, if you keep using it
like that you WILL fry the card.

James Sweet wrote:
Replace the electrolytic caps, it's easy and cheap, if you keep using it
like that you WILL fry the card.

Or you may not. My GeForce 2 was given to me as broken and replacing 1
cap fixed it. It is a horribly ugly repair(a 25W soldering iron can't
really handle ground planes), but works. I couldn't completely clear
the holes, so the cap is taped to the back of the board and "surface
mounted". I don't care what it looks like since it is inside the computer.

BTW I like this card because it still works fine even though the heat
sink is tied on with wire(plastic clips broke) and the fan hasn't worked
in years. It even made it through the Doom III demo like this.

Darren wrote:

Hi

I have a Radeon 8500 video card that's about 3 years old.

A couple of the larger capacitors are bulging and have a slight yellow
discharge.

How risky is it to continue using the thing? It has a massive heatsink that
I've added to each side of the card it the caps blow.

The motherboard won't be so lucky I suppose.

If I were to get my TV repair man or other to replace those large caps,
would the smaller ones need doing also?

I've upgraded quite a few components in this thing lately and look like
buying a new system in parts the way things are going

Replace the card? Can't afford to/not to.

Thanks

Darren



i would replace them before its took late.