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| Fish smell from my LC, my nose dies everytime I power it on | |
| Posted by: MrGasS27 on 2018-03-23 14:52:53 Hi everybody, yes, you read correctly, when I power up my LC there comes an unbearable fish smell, I've already recapped the Motherboard, but the problem is still present. How can I solve this? Everytime I power up the LC I die instantly due to the strong smell. Thank you. | |
| Posted by: Gorgonops on 2018-03-23 14:54:45 My guess would be capacitors in the power supply. I have a IIgs power supply with the same problem. | |
| Posted by: MrGasS27 on 2018-03-23 14:58:36 I think the same thing, time ago I read about a guy saying that the ELNA caps on his SE/30 PSU caused this strong smell, I never had this problem with my Macs so I ask there to be sure about the source of the smell | |
| Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2018-03-23 15:02:11 Although not all SE PSUs need a recap, LC ones definitely do! My LCII wouldn't even boot before I recapped its power supply. You're "lucky" it still works... | |
| Posted by: JRL on 2018-03-23 23:50:45 You are better off recapping your LC power supply, especially if it's a TDK one. I've have had to recap about 5+ TDK ones when they died. | |
| Posted by: MrGasS27 on 2018-03-24 01:43:26 Unfortunately I have a TDK PSU in my LC, I'll re-cap it but I'm going to use an ATX on the LC just for confirming that the smell comes from the TDK PSU | |
| Posted by: JRL on 2018-03-26 15:48:25 The amount of hacking that you'd have to do to get an ATX power supply is not worth potentially ruining your LC board, imo. Just recap your PSU, even if it has not failed yet, there's a good chance it will in the future. It's easier than recapping the LC board too! | |
| Posted by: MrGasS27 on 2018-03-27 11:08:13 Why should an ATX damage my motherboard? I use ATX on Performa 6200, IIci and IIsi, they works perfectly | |
| Posted by: JRL on 2018-03-27 11:28:13 Ahh I see now that you did an atx conversion on a IIci. Sorry, you should be fine. I think it should work as long as you have +5V +12V and -5V. | |
| Posted by: MrGasS27 on 2018-03-29 03:20:07 I did an ATX conversion on IIci, IIsi and Performa 6200 (this one with a Mini ITX PSU) and everything works correctly | |
| Posted by: MrGasS27 on 2018-06-14 07:32:35 UPDATE 16/6/2018 I had an ASTEC PSU on my LC, not a TDK one. However, I changed these caps and... no more fish smell! Now my LC is "usable" :')  | |
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