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Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« on: May 13, 2008, 01:49:17 AM »
Alas my A4000T has now developed the crackling sound issue  I've read about the need to change capacitors, but I am not up for that task myself... is anyone doing these kinds of repairs (preferably in the US, but worldwide is ok)?
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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2008, 02:35:02 AM »
cool... is there any way to contact him by e-mail by chance ?? :)
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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2008, 03:21:57 AM »
I'd be happy to pay for the caps as well as buy you a couple of brews :) I'll PM you details :)
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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2008, 03:25:05 AM »
I saw that, but I am wondering how long the caps on those modules will last... and if I can save my hardware for the same (or lesser) amount I'd do that, just to keep more miggy hardware available :)
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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2008, 04:09:10 AM »
@da9000

Cool!! I am in the Bay area myself, between SF and San Jose :)
Btw, would you be able to do a replacement of Caps on other parts of my miggy too (just for safetys sake) :)

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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2008, 04:21:45 PM »
@da9000:

PM sent ;)
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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2008, 06:28:26 PM »
ah ok... I'll open the puppy and take a look...
It's not that loaded though.... it has a P-IV card, the CSPPC card, an eFlash card, a SCSI cd-rom drive and an cf card as harddrive... all in all the psu ought to be able to handle that :)
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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2008, 10:43:27 PM »
I checked the audio module. While there isn't guhnk all over it, two of the capacitors had sort of a bit of "spider web" liks stuff by the side and the solder on one side of them is not shiny anymore... so I think the caps have only just started leaking (??)
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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2008, 04:57:42 AM »
@da9000:

Super got the e-mail, no worries about the delay :)
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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2008, 05:50:11 PM »
@Vlabguy1:

Wow, that looks worse than my board for sure... I think my board has only just begun to leak, in any case replacing the caps with better (safer) ones will make sense no matter what :)
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Re: Crackling sound on my A4000T... who does repairs ??
« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2008, 10:51:33 PM »
agreed, I'm planning on replacing _all_ caps in my miggy, on the motherboard, daughterboards and expansionboards (if any caps are present).... better safe than sorry :)
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