Chris Meyer - Mentions » Dell Precision 650 http://chrismeyer.org/wordpress Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:53:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dell Precision 650 Bad Capacitors http://chrismeyer.org/wordpress/2009/09/dell-precision-650-bad-capacitors/ http://chrismeyer.org/wordpress/2009/09/dell-precision-650-bad-capacitors/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:30:37 +0000 Waterppk http://chrismeyer.org/wordpress/?p=167 I was given a full Dell Precision 650 that wasn’t booting. In taking a glance at it, it was obvious what was wrong with the poor thing:

Bad/Leaky Capacitors

Bad/Leaky Capacitors

Dell Precision 650 Motherboard

Dell Precision 650 Motherboard

I pulled the motherboard and swapped all of the electrolytics out for known good capacitors.

Good Capacitors

Good Capacitors

After swapping out all of the bad capacitors it fired up like new!

Lots to replace!

Lots to replace!

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