Sorry if this topic doesn't apply for this category on the forum, but I'm stuck inside a pickle
here when I just had this stupid thing fixed not too long ago. Long story short, the capacitors
on the motherboard were replaced about 4-5 months ago until they finally decided to fail on
me again resulting in no power in general during startup.



I soldered in electronics before when I chipped my p28. Tell me is it pretty much the same
exact procedure as opposed to chipping a p28 ?

 

It's just soldering. It is a 6 layer board though. It's delicate that's all. I used to cap motherboards quite often a few years ago, sometimes you'll still have a dead board, but about 80% of the time new caps will fix the problem.

 

Thanks man. I'm pretty sure I can get this assignment underway if I did p28's before.
I did a lot of p28's as well.

Before I ruin the board, or kill myself (lol) ...

What would be a proper cleaning procedure that will allow me to remove that fluid
without damaging any other additional electronics located around that same location ?

Also, Do i have to leave the motherboard out for a certain time because I heard capacitors
have stored potential current that can kill a human if handled wrong ?

 

Assuming it's dried it and crusty just carefully scrape it off with an x-acto knife. You can try to clean up the residue with some rubbing alcohol and Q-tip.

No, that's really only true for capacitors in power supplies and older CRT monitors and TVs. The capacitors on a motherboard just aren't rated that high. (6.3 - 10v mostly, the odd one for 16v) You absolutely wont feel anything from one of those caps (besides that those leaking caps are internally shorted and aren't storing a charge anyway)

Make sure you put the stripe running down the side of cap in line with the painted part of the circle silkscreened on the board under the cap!

 

Nice. Will definitely take the positioning of the capacitor into consideration!
Very great in depth detail, you pwn man!

By any means possible, I'll post a picture next if I do run into problems.

 

Your caps failed, because you guys keep using the cheap *** caps with the wrong specs.
Use the Panasonic with a higher voltage rating at about 10-20% and higher temps.

 

The specs are fine. They're cheap *** caps with incorrectly manufactured electrolyte.