- Joined
- Jun 7, 2001
- Location
- Lugoff, SC
This is a picture of my motherboard. (In my recently acquired laptop.)
Key:
Green = Power connector (jack)
Blue = caps that seem to be good
Red = cap that has 0.2ohms of resistance across it.
I do not have a DVOM that tests caps, so I am just taking measurements and guessing here. But, when I take resistance measurements from all four of those caps, the blue ones keep giving me shifting readings, which seems right becuase I know that a cap charges and whatnot, and I figured that it would hold the charge from the DVOM and then throw it back out, giving me a fluctuating reading. I was told that one of these caps go bad, and I dont know which, so thats why im taking these masurements. But, the one in red has almost NO resistance across its leads!
Now, I was wondering, if you can tell, what would happen if I were to remove this cap? would the other cap be suffecient enough to take small spikes in power from the power supply? I think it would, and the fact that there are 900 million more caps on this motherboard, I dont think it would matter at all if it had a little more noise comming in through the PSU.
I know it seems to work like this..
The two smaller caps (going in this | direction) seem to be connected to the end leads of the other two caps going in - that direction. so if I were to remove the offending cap, would it give me any problems? from what I can see, it shouldnt, right?
(Copied from my thread on www.turbobricks.com)
I was told one of these caps would be the reason my compy WILL NOT boot up. Help plz!