Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Jan 19 01:51:11 EST 2011, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: > what's the form factor? i'm easily confused by this stuffi believe it's miniatx. (atx - 3 inches of depth.) - erik

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
what's the form factor? On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:58 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat Jan 15 04:25:22 EST 2011, st...@quintile.net wrote: >> Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, >> dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most >> electronics dieing of old age. > > is that lifet

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-18 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 15 Jan 2011, at 9:35 am, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most electronics dieing of old age. In the days before I took up electronics as a hobby, valves were seated in sockets because it was known th

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-15 Thread Duke Normandin
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat Jan 15 04:25:22 EST 2011, st...@quintile.net wrote: > > Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, > > dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most > > electronics dieing of old age. > > is that lifetime 2 years? > > i have 3 va linux

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Jan 15 04:25:22 EST 2011, st...@quintile.net wrote: > Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, > dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most > electronics dieing of old age. is that lifetime 2 years? i have 3 va linux machines here that are still working great with no leaky

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-15 Thread lucio
> Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, > dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most > electronics dieing of old age. In the days before I took up electronics as a hobby, valves were seated in sockets because it was known that the equipment they were used in would outlive them.

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-15 Thread Steve Simon
Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most electronics dieing of old age. -Steve

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-14 Thread lucio
> these are 6.6v 1800µF caps. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I wasn't sure, but the issue has bugged me for a long time. Thanks for the pointer. ++L

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Jan 14 23:29:27 EST 2011, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > oh, and yes. when pulling the old motherboard i noticed > > about 2/3 of the caps are dripping. > > I wonder how that happened? Every hardware problem I have diagnosed > and occasionally fixed in the last few years, from motherboar

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-14 Thread Anthony Martin
lu...@proxima.alt.za once said: > I wonder how that happened? Every hardware problem I have diagnosed > and occasionally fixed in the last few years, from motherboards to CRT > monitors to external power supplies (mains voltage converters) has > boiled down to one or more 10μF electrolytics packin

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-14 Thread lucio
> oh, and yes. when pulling the old motherboard i noticed > about 2/3 of the caps are dripping. I wonder how that happened? Every hardware problem I have diagnosed and occasionally fixed in the last few years, from motherboards to CRT monitors to external power supplies (mains voltage converters

[9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-14 Thread erik quanstrom
i just got a new motherboard/processor. (amd 4x3.4ghz with sb850) it just worked. boots in 10 seconds. same old crappy plan 9 video perfomance. :-) its been a long time since i didn't need to fight a motherboard. i did notice this usb niggle when booting. i haven't tried usb yet, so i don't