Some time things happen... That i really could do without...

[tChr]

I was watching a movie with a friend just now.. And suddenly we get this sound from the stereo rack. A rally non-good sound.. You know the sound of an electric arc? Combine that with the sound of the mortar, and you get pretty much the sound an exploding discrecte compinent makes. And this was loud.. It was more volume than shorting a regular 230V circuit. The funny thing was that nothing stopped working, so we replayed the soundtrack of the vid so see if it was a sound-effect kinda mispalced.. couldnt find it...

So since the only three things in the rack right now are:
My Haman/Kardon AVR430 reciever
My Self-made ITX PC
and My cheap-ass no-brand DVD player

I naturally assumed, and hoped that this would be a Capacitor in the DVD player's power supply or the like..

But Nooooo!




Two! Of the capacitors on my VIE Epia M6000 exploded.. at the same time! Crap. I need this computer for the easter, and I dont have time to get fixing it now. man!

[kern]

harman kardon - eeeh thats an age old name good kit.

Shame about the mini itx ... what do you think caused it? dodgy PSU ?

at least your pcb isn't covered in the mica filling, they can make a terrible mess.

[tChr]

Got the replacement on friday.. just put it in now.. so everything is up and running again

[repvik]

Got the replacement on friday.. just put it in now.. so everything is up and running again

Hei tChr, lenge siden sist

The problem you had with the caps is well known. I have a semi-broken epia M10000 board. There's IIRC four caps on the epia boards that are very prone to this behaviour. It appears that all of them are GSC 10v 1000uF capacitors. If you have any of those on your replacement, it'll probably not last very long. I'm going to replace the caps on my board with "proper" caps, since I'm having problems powering on, using two of the usb-ports and the network is flakey.

- Øyvind

[tChr]

Hei tChr, lenge siden sist

it probably _is_ a long time.. who are you, Øyvind is too regular a name?

The problem you had with the caps is well known. I have a semi-broken epia M10000 board. There's IIRC four caps on the epia boards that are very prone to this behaviour. It appears that all of them are GSC 10v 1000uF capacitors. If you have any of those on your replacement, it'll probably not last very long. I'm going to replace the caps on my board with "proper" caps, since I'm having problems powering on, using two of the usb-ports and the network is flakey.
- Øyvind

I think they bursted again.. at least it sounded like that the other day, however the mchine seems to be running steady, so i dont worry too much about it.

[repvik]

Hei tChr, lenge siden sist

it probably _is_ a long time.. who are you, Øyvind is too regular a name?

Not sure you remember me, but I remember you. I'm one of the "Trondheim Dataparty" guys. I remember running into you a few times. And discussing a possible "scene party"
I just stumbled upon your post as I googled a bit about epia and capacitors. Small world.

I think they bursted again.. at least it sounded like that the other day, however the mchine seems to be running steady, so i dont worry too much about it.

Yah, I'm not surprised. I'm going to try to get hold of a few caps. If your board breaks again, it's probably better to just get some caps and replace them. That way you know they won't break again

[tChr]

Hei tChr, lenge siden sist

it probably _is_ a long time.. who are you, Øyvind is too regular a name?

Not sure you remember me, but I remember you. I'm one of the "Trondheim Dataparty" guys. I remember running into you a few times. And discussing a possible "scene party"
I just stumbled upon your post as I googled a bit about epia and capacitors. Small world.

I'm still game for that.. These days i actually share offices with akai and KTR, so we are kinda all placed there, just let me know

[tChr]

oh.. and btw the computer in question:


is the dukeboccs audio player wich works you have all enjoyed during my broadcasts, that from time to time is available at http://excalibur.nvg.ntnu.no:8010/ as an audio stream that has possibilites for voting etc. at http://btd.dukeboccs.net:81/ if its on that is.. wich it is most of the time if I'm not playing ladder matches or something