>kills your consoles and cartridges silently in your sleep. You replace the caps on your hard to find original hardware.. right anon? also you have replaced the caps in your RARE game cartridges that go for 100$... right anon?

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Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:19:06 2019 No.5900749 [Reply] [Original]

>kills your consoles and cartridges silently in your sleep.

You replace the caps on your hard to find original hardware.. right anon? also you have replaced the caps in your RARE game cartridges that go for 100$... right anon?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:21:50 2019 No.5900757 >he thinks every cap is a suicide cap But hey, why talk about retro games when you can talk about something remotely related instead?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:23:50 2019 No.5900760 I just emulate, fuck all that noise.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:25:51 2019 No.5900764 >>5900749 panasonic longevity caps? of course

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:25:55 2019 No.5900765 >>5900749 >kills your consoles and cartridges silently in your sleep. A failed capacitor does nothing of the sort.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:47:21 2019 No.5900816 >>5900765 Tell that to PC Engine Duo owners.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:48:04 2019 No.5900817 A solar storm could fuck up both old original hardware and zoomer emulation boxes, any minute. Stop worrying and live your life, tomorrow could be the last day.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:50:52 2019 No.5900820 You only have to replace a cap if it blows

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:52:57 2019 No.5900823 >>5900816 All 4 of them should be very concerned

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 21:53:32 2019 No.5900826 File: 53 KB, 214x506, PCEngine Chad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5900823 kek

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 22:16:08 2019 No.5900862 >>5900749 >shitposts on your /vr/ silently in his youth FTFYK

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 22:16:18 2019 No.5900863 File: 69 KB, 800x650, 8FkC1Dr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5900749 Imagine being this ignorant to think this is good bait for a shitpost. Whew lad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 22:26:14 2019 No.5900876 My CRT turned on then went pop real loudly and the picture fizzled out. Traced the voltage to a cap that didn't look blown until I removed it. Replaced the cap and now my CRT works again. thumbsup.jpg

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 22:49:32 2019 No.5900934 >>5900749 It's called a capacitor, not a 'cap'.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 22:55:09 2019 No.5900942 >>5900934 You bumped this shit thread for this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 22:55:13 2019 No.5900943 >>5900749 I've recapped some of my consoles, but have there been any documented instances of cart caps going bad? I haven't come across any or heard of it happening to anyone else

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 23:00:39 2019 No.5900956 >>5900942 Yes. I mean no.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 23:28:05 2019 No.5900984 >>5900934 It's called an electrolytic capacitor, not a 'capacitor'.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 23:55:21 2019 No.5901015 File: 21 KB, 700x700, ackchyually.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5900934 >i'm called a mentally disabled young human being below the age of puberty with autism spectrum disorder

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 00:12:53 2019 No.5901040

>>5900984
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as a "capacitor", is in fact, an electrolytic capacitor, or as I've recently taken to calling it, anode/cathode. A capacitor is not an electrical storage device unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning electrolytic system made useful by aluminum, tantalum and vital niobium components comprising a full oxide structure as defined by CAPIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the electrolytic capacitor, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of the anode/cathode which is widely used today is often called a "capacitor", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the electrochemical process system, developed by Eugène Ducretet

There really is a capacitor, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Aluminum is the anode: the positive plate in the electrolytes plus dielectric that allocates conventional current to the polarized electrical device. The anode is an essential part of an electrolytes plus dielectric, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a cathode. Electrolytes plus dielectric are normally used in combination with an anode and a cathode: the whole system is basically anode with cathode added, or anode/cathode. All the so-called "capacitors" are really distributions of current within two polarized surfaces.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 01:22:19 2019 No.5901126 >>5901040 >low quality repro noodles

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 01:26:54 2019 No.5901131 File: 952 KB, 2048x1895, 130534DB-9C47-4C51-82E8-A38812C3300B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just recapped my Macintosh color classic’s leaky SM caps. Thoughts?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 01:43:36 2019 No.5901151 File: 100 KB, 350x350, f4d3c1b8ec678cf5c0dc9bf03f755678b578949449eb3d3a1bbd76afe3ac8c68.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5901131 learn to solder properly

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 01:47:29 2019 No.5901157 >>5901151 Whats wrong with my soldering? All the caps are surface mounted, ie, no holes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 02:37:03 2019 No.5901208 >>5900942 There are three main electrical components: resistors, capacitors, and inductors. We don't call resistors "rests", we don't call inductors "inds", and we don't call capacitors "caps". >>5900984 That is a specific kind of capacitor.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 02:56:38 2019 No.5901231 >>5901208 people call them caps all the time. i dunno why you are being so autistic about this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 03:14:05 2019 No.5901250 >>5901231 lol where the fuck do you think you are

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 04:17:29 2019 No.5901329 >>5901131 >Thoughts? My old Mac shit will be worth a fortune some day if faggots like you keep "fixing" shit like that

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 04:59:08 2019 No.5901381 >>5901329 What is wrong with it, tell me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 05:07:33 2019 No.5901389 >>5900749 Don't be so attached. If my consoles were to die off at some point soon I'd be sad for a bit then I'd be extremely relieved.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 06:12:08 2019 No.5901442 >>5900749 go away capshil, capmeme is stupid, I have over 20 consoles and none of them have any trouble

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 06:22:24 2019 No.5901451

>>5901157

If it works it works.

Here is some constructive criticism. Replacing surface mount capacitors with through hole kinda looks like shit. But then again it takes more work to measure the right capacitor size for surface mount.

But those solder points could use some more solder. Apply some flux and apply more solder. They should be shiny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 06:55:38 2019 No.5901485 >>5901131 As long as you neutralised the corrosion and didn't destroy any pads, you're fine. Not pretty, but functionally ok.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 06:57:48 2019 No.5901486 File: 5 KB, 225x225, ..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5901208 >he doesn't call them resis

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 08:26:34 2019 No.5901606 >>5901208 >That is a specific kind of capacitor. Yeah specific to the one in the OP

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 08:57:02 2019 No.5901645 >>5900749 Yes, every 5 to 10 years. I have never encountered a system with popped caps. Can this worthless thread die now pls?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 08:58:03 2019 No.5901649 >>5900816 A swap takes like 10 minutes minus the disassembly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 09:09:11 2019 No.5901661 >>5901451 >They should be shiny. It's only shiny when hot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 09:37:17 2019 No.5901698 >>5901645 >I have never encountered a system with popped caps I lost a Compaq motherboard to blown caps (it was that 2000s chink cap plague). In theory they could have been replaced but the thing was obsolete and not worth it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 10:47:16 2019 No.5901804 >>5901131 thats... brilliant. Thats something i never thought about. Replace the SMD's with standard caps. How did you get the SMD's off anyway? Pry them off with pliers?

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 12:41:14 2019 No.5902032

>>5901381
Pretty much everything. Since it's your first time soldering and you're too retarded to look at shit that's already there and compare it to your shitshow I'm not sure if there's any point going into details. Suffice it to say at least one of those of those cold joint mountains of dollar store solder that's never been touched by flux will come off soon enough. Probably taking a pad or even a trace with it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 12:41:28 2019 No.5902034 >>5901804 >standard caps Anyway, why would you ever want to swap an smt cap with through hole? unless of course you already have the values you need in through hole variety.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 12:54:22 2019 No.5902056 >>5901131 Apple used horrible caps back then, nearly all late 80s Macs need to be recapped.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 13:01:41 2019 No.5902069 Why do soldering irons have to turn to shit so quickly

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 13:04:38 2019 No.5902075 >>5902069 Because you buy shitty ones and don't maintain them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 13:22:38 2019 No.5902107 >replaced all caps in my gamegear >system works well but the right part of the LCD is sometimes not working

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 13:33:23 2019 No.5902115

>>5902032

What is the point of you (and /vr/ in general) being so shitty to everyone? Why can't you just say that it looks like he didn't use flux or use proper technique or whatever you feel is wrong with it.

Hell, if you're going to call him out by assuming it's his first solder job, you could suggest he do a few jobs on broken pcbs or something similar.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 14:33:25 2019 No.5902207 >>5902069 My metcal has been great for years

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 14:42:33 2019 No.5902226 >>5902069 Clean your tips regularly. My soldering irons are from the 70s, given to me by my dad, and they still work flawlessly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 14:43:13 2019 No.5902230 File: 755 KB, 1830x1847, IMG_5101.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5900749 works for me

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 15:04:47 2019 No.5902290 >>5900765 >A failed capacitor does nothing of the sort. Tell that to the mass-graves of dead Xboxes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 15:05:42 2019 No.5902293 >>5900817 >A solar storm could fuck up both old original hardware and zoomer emulation boxes, any minute. if that happens, civilization as we knew it would be gone as a whole. retro-vidya would be the least of anyone's concern.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 15:05:43 2019 No.5902294 >>5902226 What is it, an Ungar?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 15:07:21 2019 No.5902301 >>5902069 t. 5-dollar-shit from Walmart

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 15:21:19 2019 No.5902328 lmao collectorcucks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 15:23:36 2019 No.5902335 >>5900749 This is a good way for DIY guys to fuck up those rare carts. God speed lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 15:31:08 2019 No.5902356 >>5900765 the xbox's rtc literally did that. over and over.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 15:38:28 2019 No.5902373 File: 77 KB, 600x732, stupid_ape.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5900749 Costs like 25 cents and takes 5 minutes of your time. Good work stirring up drama over nothing OP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 16:41:14 2019 No.5902516 >>5902032 I used flux for literally every thing I soldered and the joints themselves are good. It's not pretty but it's perfectly functional, you're just a faggot elitist who desperately trying to feel superior.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 16:48:35 2019 No.5902538 >>5901661 >It's only shiny when hot. Wrong, and there are at least a couple of cold joints in your work there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 17:03:29 2019 No.5902562 >>5902301 If you think I'm paying some smirking cunt more than $10 for a device that "gets hot when plugged in", you're nuts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 17:10:10 2019 No.5902572 >>5902562 Then keep buying new ones when they die and burning off pads due to the lack of temperature regulation.

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 23:18:49 2019 No.5903328

>>5902115
>waaaaahhhh
Maybe you should stick to your safe spaces redditot

>>5902516
>i'm totally clueless
>people who like things done right are elitists
Top kek hampster boi. Stay stupid. Stay mad. Whatever you do don't learn from your mistakes and better yourself. We need lolcows like you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 23:22:27 2019 No.5903337 >>5903328 Nice argument champ. Feeling bigger are we?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 23:22:56 2019 No.5903338 >>5903328 >Top kek >>>/8/chan

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 03:09:41 2019 No.5903694 File: 168 KB, 365x281, internet guy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5903337 I'll never feel as big as you

Anonymous Tue Sep 24 03:57:51 2019 No.5903743
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>>5903328
* clears throat*

Im so jealous of you because ou looke like a very happy and fullfilled individual, lots of friends that you have fun with every wekend when you go out for a drink, a beautifull girldfriend that smiles everytime she remembers how lucky she is for having you in her life, and your parents are so proud of you that all they dream about is for you to give them the big announcement that you are having their first grandchild... im so jealous, i wish i was you, your life is so full of grace and happiness while im just a lonely guy who shitposts in a chinese cartoon imageboard for aspergian autistic childless girldfriendless friendless mouthbreathers and my only satisfaction is to shitpost and be angry...

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 07:44:24 2019 No.5903948 >>5903743 >SEETHING

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 08:53:33 2019 No.5903995 >>5900749 >also you have replaced the caps in your RARE game cartridges that go for 100$... right anon? Then they won't be original, you fucking pube.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 14:01:59 2019 No.5904530 >>5903694 How will I ever recover.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 14:11:10 2019 No.5904562 >>5903338 Atechan's been down for over a month lad. Explains why posting quality here has been so shit lately.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 14:22:35 2019 No.5904583 >>5903995 Attempting to have the same behaviour as regular hardware you could say it's cloning part of the hardware, you could say hardware emulation of it. Your collection is now just a bunch of emulators, gg proactivefags.

>>	Anonymons Tue Sep 24 14:34:03 2019 No.5904609 File: 4 KB, 112x112, tinyhand.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i stopped buying electrical components due to trumps stupid-ass trade war w/china.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 14:36:50 2019 No.5904620 >>5904609 >stupid-ass trade war >hurrr just roll over and let the chinks rape your ass dry, w*stoids

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 14:37:54 2019 No.5904624 >>5904609 >not supporting human rights abusing dictatorships >stupid I may not agree with much of what Trump does, but he's right on this one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 14:41:53 2019 No.5904639 >>5904609 >Being this retarded. Go get a job with Wal-Mart then you unAmerican Fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 14:42:16 2019 No.5904641 >>5904609 >buying cheap Chinese components >not buying superior Nippon capacitors made of aluminum folded 1000 times Someone should spit on you

Anonymous Tue Sep 24 15:11:42 2019 No.5904695

>>5901131
1) Clean the area before soldering a new capacitor.
2) Pre-bend your THT cap legs into their proper position, keep them tight to the body of the capacitor so they don't float, and pre-tin them.
3) Apply flux to the pads AND legs of the capacitors
4) Use enough solder to fully cover the pad and legs, work quickly so the pads don't lift. Your finished solder should be smooth, shiny, and completely encase the leg.
If you use flux, and the right temp on your iron, you shouldn't have huge globs of solder on the board.

Anonymous Tue Sep 24 15:14:39 2019 No.5904702

>>5902034
THT Caps are generally higher quality, and they're much easier to solder to the pads if you pre-bend the legs to fit.
More importantly, they're much easier to REMOVE later if they need to be replaced again, since you can snip the legs and just wipe away the leftover solder and metal with your iron.

Anonymous Tue Sep 24 15:21:28 2019 No.5904714

>>5904702
I disagree that they're easier to solder onto boards. A decent pair of tweezers is all you need for smt and a rework air gun goes a long way too. Also, I'm not sure through hole tech is inherently higher quality, but thwy are definitely mechanically more secure when actually going through a hole. Using a through hole component as a surface mount component is arguably more unreliable than both. The top heavy caps will move more with any movement and create some pressure down at the solder joints.

Anonymous Tue Sep 24 15:23:40 2019 No.5904720

>>5901157
See how bulbous and weird the solder looks? That's because it wasn't brought up to a proper temp.
With large PCBs like this, you actually need to sometimes pre-heat the ENTIRE board to make sure the ground plane isn't acting like a giant heat-sink and leaving you with cold solder joints.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 20:55:53 2019 No.5905340 >>5904530 gastric bypass?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 02:38:58 2019 No.5905809 >>5903328 I think /v/ is more your style.

Anonymous Wed Sep 25 03:14:21 2019 No.5905845
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Replacing caps and other components on your hardware no longer make them authentic. They're only worth 100$ because they're (for now) still functional and original - in their entirety.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 03:39:06 2019 No.5905869 Depends on the console. Mostly the sega consoles need the occasional check up specifically the gamegear and dreamcast controller board and fuse. and the OG xbox OFC

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 05:13:02 2019 No.5905943 >>5900749 >hard to find They are all over ebay and my local independent gaming stores have literal five foot high stacks of all the 80's and 90's consoles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 06:10:49 2019 No.5906010 >>5905809 >i project

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 07:56:06 2019 No.5906108 >>5901040 Based

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:21:06 2019 No.5907572 >>5900757 If it's not a suicide cap, even the trainable mentally retarded can learn to identify, desolder, and solider in a replacement, all in one weekend.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 19:59:09 2019 No.5909737 >>5903743 sauce

Anonymous Thu Sep 26 20:43:14 2019 No.5909834

When did replacing capacitors become a retro meme. I knew a guy who would be like "oh nice, 3DO, better replace the caps! Nice NES, better replace the caps!"

It's so stupid. It's like seeing someone with a classic car and saying, "Nice car, did you replace the spark plugs? If those stop working the car is worthless."

Caps are just another fucking component. If they pop, replace em. If not, leave em. I've got a ton of retro shit that never needed anything replaced, let alone a vanity capacity replacement binge.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 21:04:36 2019 No.5909884 >>5909834 If your classic car hasn't had the spark plugs changed in 25 years, then yes, you should replace them, regardless of whether the car still runs or not.

Anonymous Fri Sep 27 02:54:10 2019 No.5910493

>>5909834
It happened many summers ago. Back when you first started on reddit. The "retro" fad has always been about bilking stupids of their jew gold. Once it became difficult to pick shit up at a garbage sale for a buck and flip it for $100 on ebay the scammers had to invent a new source of revenue. Nothing better than a contrived apocalypse to satiate the need of the sheep to spend OPM. I actually don't have a problem with this because a large percentage of recaps destroy the console, driving up the price of my collection. And even those that succeed make it worthless to the autistic collectors who pay good money. And many that work in the short term will fail long term.

>>5909884
>dumb kid who knows noting about cars or consoles
wew lad. Just because a part is older than you doesn't mean it needs to be changed. Especially when that involved the butchery tards like you do to the things.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 27 12:47:11 2019 No.5911105 >>5909834 >When did replacing capacitors become a retro meme. when some consoles became notorious for being ticking timebombs re: caps.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 28 06:55:32 2019 No.5912574 File: 169 KB, 982x826, image0 (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5901131 Alright I redid the soldering job, how's it now?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 28 08:28:54 2019 No.5912693 >>5912574 Honestly? It looks like it you scaled the image to hide your crappy soldering. Literally lol. Trimming the leads is step in the right direction but the soldering itself was your real problem.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 28 08:30:43 2019 No.5912695 At least we're all not vintage guitar amp collectors. Bad caps just fucking electrocute you.

Anonymous Sat Sep 28 08:43:02 2019 No.5912717

>>5909834
It makes sense for certain consoles like PC Engine shit that are notorious for shitty failing capacitors. Might as well just get it over with if you see they've never been replaced.
Otherwise I only replace them if I have a console that's malfunctioning and either I see it's a capacitor issue or I can't figure out the cause, and just take a shotgun approach by replacing all the caps. That's what I did when my original Genesis stopped working. Also did that on my super famicom in order to see if it would solve the audio buzzing I was hearing no matter what (it didn't)

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 28 08:46:16 2019 No.5912725 >>5912574 G A R B A G E A R B A G E

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 28 12:03:23 2019 No.5913051 >>5912574 can't see shit

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 28 21:47:48 2019 No.5914356 >>5912693 There's absolutely nothing wrong with my soldering job. You really are just a pretentious faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 29 02:38:38 2019 No.5914761 >>5914356 >my mommy told me im perfect Of course ze did zewtie. Now here comes a trigger warning. Break out your emotional support hampster. You're a retarded loser.

Anonymous Sun Sep 29 17:27:32 2019 No.5916187

>>5904620
wasn't le chinkos that outsourced all this production and made us so reliant on them to begin with.
>>5904624
>i t-totally don't support trump haha but we need to own the chingchongs cause they abuse human rights and stuff. forget all that trump himself has gained through working with china. i don't support him but i just love his dick in my mouth so much mm yes thank you based god emperor
>>5904639
kek telling someone to get a jerb at wal-mart and calling them unamerican in the same sentence. the absolute cognitive dissonance
>>5904641
or maybe just bring those production jobs back over here instead of idealizing the situation with cringey weeaboo consumer culture

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 29 21:44:01 2019 No.5916784 >>5900765 Ah, you must be retarded. I have personally had to run wires over broken traces because old caps decided to ejaculate on boards. Look at any unrepaired PCE Duo or Game Gear in 2019 and you'll see what they do.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 29 23:36:31 2019 No.5916917 >>5916784 >I have personally had to LARP on eh 4chan You had to?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 30 15:19:59 2019 No.5918381 Athletics>Nationals>Rays >Twins>Braves>Cards>Brewers>Astros>Yanks>Dodgers Ordered by most interesting/ fun if they were to win the world series

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 30 21:07:11 2019 No.5919073 File: 219 KB, 1920x1080, geforce4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this is the 2nd geforce 4 I got that is fucked. What's the issue with them?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 30 23:43:54 2019 No.5919306 >>5919073 Prime capacitor plague era. Replace all electrolytic caps if you cant troubleshoot. If it still fails replace tantalum caps. If that fails, you'll have to learn how to troubleshoot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 30 23:45:43 2019 No.5919309 >>5919073 >>5919306 I mean. It looks a little like a ramproblem, but modern ram doesnt usually die. I'd blame caps first and see if it fixes it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 30 23:53:50 2019 No.5919313 >>5901485 Even if a pad is destroyed you can always expose a trace or jump it down the line in series, unless youre a pussy bitch anyways

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 00:08:37 2019 No.5919327 >>5916917 Imagine being so braindead you consider basic electronics repair a LARP. I could train a monkey to do bodge wiring.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 00:55:15 2019 No.5919412 >>5919327 >Imagine being so braindead you double down on your LARP. If you ever even tried what you claim you'd have put your eye out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 03:47:47 2019 No.5919624 >>5919412 Come watch me do it and I'll put YOUR eye out you cheeky little bugger

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 07:13:06 2019 No.5919864 >>5919306 Does a computer repair shop do that? How much would they charge? Would they fuck up a vintage graphics card?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 07:31:54 2019 No.5919893 >>5919313 True, but it's a pain in the ass. I had to do this when I was recapping my genesis and accidentally fucked up a pad that resulted in no sound from one of the channels.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 07:55:28 2019 No.5919919 >>5919864 You can learn to do it yourself fairly easily, but I'm sure you can find repair shops willing to recap your graphics card. If anything it's probably far easier than working on a macbook.

Anonymous Tue Oct 1 07:58:57 2019 No.5919925
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>>5919919
Are the capacitors on geforce4s nearing the end of their lives even if they don't look bad? Should I replace them anyway? Pic related is another card I have that works okay.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 08:02:12 2019 No.5919927 >>5919925 if I don't use the card much and only for older games that came out before it, will they last longer?

Anonymous Tue Oct 1 12:14:16 2019 No.5920442

>>5901231
>>5902115
>/v/ frequently comes by and shitposts with pictures from an emulator with fucked aspect ratio
>/vr/ tells them to fix their shit and fuck off
>/v/ screams /vr/ must be autistic
>/v/ starts shitposting about pedantic shit because they think it helps them fit in
See /v/irgins like >>5901250 and >>5903328

And those who pay close attention will recognize >>5903328 by his posting style. You know, that guy who just repeats shit in tech-related threads while offering no new info and constantly throws buzzwords while being dismissive and antagonistic? I swear he shows up every tech-related thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 18:06:31 2019 No.5921187 >>5901151 >anime posting Commit suicide post haste

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 18:12:29 2019 No.5921205 >>5904609 Thanks for not contributing to global pollution for once in your life

Anonymous Tue Oct 1 18:46:21 2019 No.5921257

>>5920442
>And those who pay close attention will recognize >>5903328 by his posting style

Holy shit, thanks for confirming im not the only one noticing that autistic virgin incel in his 30s always angry and throwing "brainlet retard" at anyone asking any normal question.
I even know how his hairliene is, how greasy his skin is, and his bodyfat ratio.

Anonymous Tue Oct 1 18:49:59 2019 No.5921262

>>5903328
AN by the way, im still waiting for you to post a link to buy those PS1 laser pickups, NOT THE FULL ASSEMBLY, you said they were sold and easily found, so post ANY model you want, i dont care which one, just post the link or go fuck that beautifull female thats so much in love with you and dreams of starting a family now that you are pushing your 30s as a successfull and fullfilled individual with no mental dissorders.

Anonymous Tue Oct 1 19:41:46 2019 No.5921340

>>5916187
>wasn't le chinkos that outsourced all this production and made us so reliant on them to begin with.

Yeah that was dumbass boomers trying to save a dollar. Don't blame me for that shit.

>or maybe just bring those production jobs back over here instead of idealizing the situation with cringey weeaboo consumer culture

That I agree with.

Anonymous Tue Oct 1 20:43:51 2019 No.5921454

>>5919925
They don't have to look bad to be bad. A lot of the bad shit happens inside for years before it decides to exit onto the board.
>>5919927
Having them on for less time will extend their lifespan. If they're already fucked and ready to leak though, I wouldn't trust them to just sit there. I don't think using less processing power would make them last longer, not sure.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 21:28:11 2019 No.5921527 >>5921454 how do you know if they're going bad if they look okay on the outside?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 21:41:58 2019 No.5921559 >>5921527 You remove them and test them with an ESR meter.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 22:12:11 2019 No.5921616 >>5921559 but I don't want to do that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 22:36:23 2019 No.5921658 >>5921340 It would actually be great to bring it back over. The us would have factories with the very latest robots and would blow out the asian factories for 10-20 years

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 22:38:15 2019 No.5921660 >>5921454 I've heard the opposite that electrolytic capacitors will hold on better if they are kept in use. Source: mr Carlson's lab.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 22:39:21 2019 No.5921661 >>5921616 Then you wait for your shit to stop working and hope it doesnt burn up any traces or blow up expensive chips when it fails

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 1 22:42:31 2019 No.5921670 >>5921661 so they can be fine one minute and then shit all over the pcb the next?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 2 01:35:17 2019 No.5921890 >>5921670 Yes. Electronics are pretty rugged and. Built to nominal voltages amd have comparatively generous tolerances. Eventually it gets too far out of tolerance and will stop working.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 2 08:19:29 2019 No.5922351 >>5921890 then why does every repair video I've seen with a busted capacitor show it slowly leaking over a long period of time?

Anonymous Wed Oct 2 10:59:20 2019 No.5922559

>>5922351
Why the fuck does anything ever go bad you dumbshit, holy shit. You think this is just a factory defect? Of course it goes bad over time. This was all fine when it left the factory in 1985, now it's fucked, gee did it fucking go bad over time?

https://www.avnet.com/wps/portal/abacus/resources/engineers-insight/article/understanding-esr-in-electrolytic-capacitors

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 2 17:07:36 2019 No.5923287 >>5922559 huh? I'm saying it leaks very slowly and you said it could shit all over the board and kill everything in an instant

Anonymous Wed Oct 2 19:59:01 2019 No.5923597

>>5923287
It can do both.

https://youtu.be/67M7fsbLUIU
https://youtu.be/UBjz94K0Ci4 is being forced to fail but it's possible in normal operation.

It goes like this.
>electrolytic cap dries out slightly.
>equivalent series resistance goes up. Capacitor now has a built in heater.
>cap heats up and vents into your case
>is no longer a capacitor, now is just a resistor.

>your power supply or whatever is now fucked good and proper

Tantalum surface mount Caps also fail often because they are very sensitive to physical stress. When they bend they crack and fail short. This is bad because they are usually used between power rails and ground next to integrated circuits.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 2 20:03:42 2019 No.5923603 >>5923597 Physical stress in this case can come from thermal cycling

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