Hello all,
Just acquired a beautiful Compaq Deskpro 386s/20n and, after replacing 3 unhappy capacitors in the power supply, I'm still unable to get it to boot. I then removed the motherboard from the equation and the HDD spun up!
So... dead MB. Question is, can I also revive that? I voted yes, but in that process I came across the following:
On top is "10" then "16v" and the polarity of the pins.
I want to assume they are 10uf.. electrolytic.. and I want to replace them... but... are they?
Google images is not returning any results for any such thing as a rectangular electrolytic.
Of course, replacing these could do nothing... chances are if the power surge has made it through the board to these and cooked these and the PS then the system is dead... but all's well that ends well.
Thank you to anyone in advance that has seen (and is able to describe) such a component!
Update: I powered the system up after nudging the capacitor, as per the image above, and power is staying active, rather than shorting straight away... might head to the electronics store as soon as positive identification is confirmed.