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Re: Does "magic pack" Amiga 1200 need recap?
« on: January 16, 2015, 04:18:30 AM »
I should chime in here;  I've had two different systems where I had to have them recapped.

First one, I think was manufactured right around the time where a lot of companies were using crappy capacitors.  I was shocked that one of my Asus systems were, but it wasn't one of their high quality motherboards, it was a system that I had bought called The Asus Digimatrix.  Was the perfect size for an HTPC.  Well, it started acting funky, I took at look at the board and the capacitors were bulging all over the place.  It was still under warranty at that point, so I sent it in for repair.

Freaking jerks replaced them with the EXACT same capacitors, because about 9 months later, they started to explode again.  Had to pay 60 bucks for them to fix it.  About a year after that, it did it a third time, in which I basically said screw it, did it myself with better capacitors.  Unfortunately my crap solder job somehow fried the wireless (I think I applied too much heat somewhere, not sure) but I didn't really care, didn't use it anyhow :D

So when I was troubleshooting my A4000D and trying to figure out why I would randomly get Software Error #80000003 all the time, someone suggested that I get it recapped.  I can't recall how much it was overall (about 100 bucks, I think) to ship it off to Amigakit and have them recap it.

It's been running like a champ ever since, well not counting my own stupidity of trying to add more crap to it :D

slaapliedje
A4000D: Mediator 4000Di; Voodoo 3, ZorRAM 128MB, 10/100mb Ethernet, Spider 2. Cyberstorm PPC 060/50 604e/420.