recap

I recently re-capped my Radeon 9000 Pro with all tantalum or polymer caps as it had some that were starting to look a bit sad around the base. It worked fine for about an hour and then I got a pink screen full of lines that quickly went to black and my video card started smoking. I pulled the...

Hey gang - restoring a Macintosh 512k. Recapped most of the caps. I should have just bought a kit to do it right. But anyhow, the fat Mac has been working well until a few minutes ago. Playing lode runner and the screen flickered a few times. I shook the case but it didn’t make the screen...

I've read several reports of people having their PSUs dying, so I was wondering, since those Mac Pros are at least 10 years old, if it's finally time to get our hands dirty by opening the PSU, warming our soldering irons and give the thing some love with new shiny capacitors. Recapping is a...