{"id":167,"date":"2009-09-12T20:30:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T01:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2009-09-12T20:34:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T01:34:02","slug":"dell-precision-650-bad-capacitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Dell Precision 650 Bad Capacitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was given a full Dell Precision 650 that wasn&#8217;t booting.  In taking a glance at it, it was obvious what was wrong with the poor thing:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07131.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168\" title=\"DSC07131\" src=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07131-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bad\/Leaky Capacitors\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07131-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07131.JPG 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bad\/Leaky Capacitors<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07128.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171\" title=\"Dell Precision 650 Motherboard\" src=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07128-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dell Precision 650 Motherboard\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07128-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07128.JPG 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dell Precision 650 Motherboard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I pulled the motherboard and swapped all of the electrolytics out for known good capacitors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_169\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07133.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-169\" title=\"Good Capacitors\" src=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07133-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Good Capacitors\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07133-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07133.JPG 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Good Capacitors<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After swapping out all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capacitor_plague\" target=\"_Blank\">bad capacitors<\/a> it fired up like new!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_170\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07134.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170\" title=\"Dell_Precision_650_Capacitors\" src=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07134-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lots to replace!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07134-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC07134.JPG 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lots to replace!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was given a full Dell Precision 650 that wasn&#8217;t booting. In taking a glance at it, it was obvious what was wrong with the poor thing: I pulled the motherboard and swapped all of the electrolytics out for known good capacitors. After swapping out all of the bad capacitors it fired up like new!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[59,60],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-repair","tag-bad-capacitors","tag-dell-precision-650"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}