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Changing Bad Capacitors on IBM X300 server motherboard

EZ Helper — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:26:21 +0000

Over a year ago I was given a lot of IBM x300 8672-8AX servers, 13 in all. They all had the same problem, bad capacitors on the motherboards. I went online and bought all the MS-6388 motherboards I could find and fixed 6 of the servers replacing the motherboards and now have them all running in my home server rack. Now a year later and there are no MS-6388 motherboards to be found online for sale so I bought new 4700uf capacitors to see if I could get the board to fire up. The MS-6388 motherboard has 6 – 4700uF 6.3v capacitors next to the CPU, as you can see in the pic the capacitors are bubbling, bulging or popping up.

Pictures of the 4700uF 6.3v capacitors after I took them out of the MS-6388 motherboard.

The new 4700uF capacitors are 10v.

The solder points on the MS-6388 under the motherboard and the new 4700uF 10v capacitors in place.

After all the new 4700uF 10v capacitors were installed I put the motherboard in put everything back and it all worked fine.

Here is where i bought some of my caps at Buy New Capacitors here

I also bought my capacitors at Badcaps.net they are great and fast shipping.

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IBM netvista now part of home server setup

EZ Helper — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:36:57 +0000

This Netvista pc will be used to control my cisco 3745 router and cisco 2950 switch. This will be good because it has 2 serial connectors so i can control both router and switch with 1 PC.

Product: NetVista personal computer 8319-11U
Operating system: Windows XP

Original description: Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz (512KB), 256MB, 40GB 7200RPM IDE HDD, PCI Small Form Factor (2×3), Intel Extreme Graphics, 48x CD-ROM, Intel 10/100 Ethernet, Windows XP Professional

IBM Netvista pc

IBM Netvista pc inside

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Alienware AMD 3500+ Turned into media server

EZ Helper — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:37:58 +0000

I had a Alienware that was not being used so I turned it into my Home Media Server. The OS is installed onto a WD Raptor Hard Drive and it also has an WD 500gb hard drive used as the media drive. The OS is Windows XP Pro sp3 also installed is the Tivo server software, Miro, Acronis.

Alienware home server amd

Processor 1
Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD
Caption: x86 Family 15 Model 31 Stepping 0
Version: Model 15, Stepping 0
Address Width: 32Bits
Data Width: 32Bits

Socket Designation: Socket 939

I’m still in the process of setting this up so keep checking back.

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