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knight37 wrote:
> Wurm wrote:
>> "len Bogus" <lenbogus@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>> news:C4LSe.6857$9i4.3047@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>>> Smoke started bellowing out of my xbox today... Looks like the
>>> leads on the C7G6 capacitor, and the capacitor itself melted. Where
>>> can I even buy this capacitor? Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> theoretically you could snip off the capacitor from the mobo, bring
>> it to a good electronic's parts store and they could ID it for you
>> and sell you an equivalent replacement to solder onto the board. Of
>> course much more could be fried than just that capacitor, who knows
>> what funky power surges went through the board so after all this
>> work you could very well end up with a still dead xbox.
>>
>> to be safe replace the mobo, a modding store could do this for you
>> fairly easily.
>
> No, the best thing to do is replace it with the FLUX-121G Capacitor.
>
> Knight37
Would that allow his Xbox to travel to 1950?
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