I recently recapped my Mac LC power supply and motherboard.
The power supply works great, but only sometimes. I can leave it for an hour and I get no voltage on any of the rails, but then I check on it an hour later and it works fine again, full voltage on all of the rails. I didn't replace either of the AC caps, only the DC ones, and whenever it does work, it makes a faint clicking sound and it smells like . . . fish? That's the only way that I could describe the smell. The smell goes away once it's powered off for a few minutes.
The motherboard used to make the startup chime and loop before I replaced the caps, but after, there is no startup chime at all and there was no video signal either before or after.
I have quadruple checked to make sure that all capacitors are facing the correct direction and they are all the right values and high quality capacitors. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The power supply works great, but only sometimes. I can leave it for an hour and I get no voltage on any of the rails, but then I check on it an hour later and it works fine again, full voltage on all of the rails. I didn't replace either of the AC caps, only the DC ones, and whenever it does work, it makes a faint clicking sound and it smells like . . . fish? That's the only way that I could describe the smell. The smell goes away once it's powered off for a few minutes.
The motherboard used to make the startup chime and loop before I replaced the caps, but after, there is no startup chime at all and there was no video signal either before or after.
I have quadruple checked to make sure that all capacitors are facing the correct direction and they are all the right values and high quality capacitors. Any help would be greatly appreciated!