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I sent a KA7 (out of warranty, BTW) back to Abit for cap replacement a
couple of years ago. They fixed it gratis, BUT...I noticed the the ONE cap
they didn't replace has leaked all over my board...EC33. (You get what you
pay for.) So I remove the cap, clean things up and replace the cap with a
Nichicon. The one detail I overlooked was polarity. So my question is this:
on the circuit board, directly under the cap, there is a circle printed in
ink. One-half of the circle is filled out in white ink. Is that the pos or
neg side? Or does polarity even matter here? Thanks a lot!

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"tom" <tom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I sent a KA7 (out of warranty, BTW) back to Abit for cap replacement a
> couple of years ago. They fixed it gratis, BUT...I noticed the the ONE cap
> they didn't replace has leaked all over my board...EC33. (You get what you
> pay for.) So I remove the cap, clean things up and replace the cap with a
> Nichicon. The one detail I overlooked was polarity. So my question is
this:
> on the circuit board, directly under the cap, there is a circle printed in
> ink. One-half of the circle is filled out in white ink. Is that the pos or
> neg side? Or does polarity even matter here? Thanks a lot!
>
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>
>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

try the same message to him directly on his email:
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Homie and BigBadger repair boards and have many happy
customers:


Homie (AKA Capman), in the US, at:

http://www.motherboardrepair.com/
gary@motherboardrepair.com

(look for posts from BigBadger if you're in the UK or try him at
Big_Badger@btinternet***NO-SPAM***.com with the obvious
spam protection removed...)



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ftp://geerynet.d2g.com
ftp://68.98.180.8 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP
This IP is dynamic so it *could* change!...
over 130,000 FTP users served!
^^^^^^^




"tom" <tom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:wZ4oc.16051$V97.10166@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> I sent a KA7 (out of warranty, BTW) back to Abit for cap replacement a
> couple of years ago. They fixed it gratis, BUT...I noticed the the ONE cap
> they didn't replace has leaked all over my board...EC33. (You get what you
> pay for.) So I remove the cap, clean things up and replace the cap with a
> Nichicon. The one detail I overlooked was polarity. So my question is
this:
> on the circuit board, directly under the cap, there is a circle printed in
> ink. One-half of the circle is filled out in white ink. Is that the pos or
> neg side? Or does polarity even matter here? Thanks a lot!
>
> --
> ************
> All email scanned by Norton AntiVirus 2002
>
>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

The white side is negative....and yes, polarity is important if you want to
avoid exploding capacitors.
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"tom" <tom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:wZ4oc.16051$V97.10166@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> I sent a KA7 (out of warranty, BTW) back to Abit for cap replacement a
> couple of years ago. They fixed it gratis, BUT...I noticed the the ONE cap
> they didn't replace has leaked all over my board...EC33. (You get what you
> pay for.) So I remove the cap, clean things up and replace the cap with a
> Nichicon. The one detail I overlooked was polarity. So my question is
this:
> on the circuit board, directly under the cap, there is a circle printed in
> ink. One-half of the circle is filled out in white ink. Is that the pos or
> neg side? Or does polarity even matter here? Thanks a lot!
>
> --
> ************
> All email scanned by Norton AntiVirus 2002
>
>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

Hello,
On Abit boards the white side is negative....
On some boards the white side is positive... they do that to screw you up !
On some Asus server boards, the white side is marked negative but is actually
positive, they did that just to piss me off!


Homie

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"tom" <tom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:wZ4oc.16051$V97.10166@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
I sent a KA7 (out of warranty, BTW) back to Abit for cap replacement a
couple of years ago. They fixed it gratis, BUT...I noticed the the ONE cap
they didn't replace has leaked all over my board...EC33. (You get what you
pay for.) So I remove the cap, clean things up and replace the cap with a
Nichicon. The one detail I overlooked was polarity. So my question is this:
on the circuit board, directly under the cap, there is a circle printed in
ink. One-half of the circle is filled out in white ink. Is that the pos or
neg side? Or does polarity even matter here? Thanks a lot!

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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit (More info?)

Electrolytics have polarity (at least all the ones I've seen).

>Hello,
>On Abit boards the white side is negative....
>On some boards the white side is positive... they do that to screw you up !
>On some Asus server boards, the white side is marked negative but is actually
>positive, they did that just to piss me off!
>
>
>Homie


-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)