[SOLVED] Is this a good capacitor reforming guide for personal use?

[Pc6777]

I wrote this up, and i'm gonna print it and store it for future use, is it accurate?


PC Component Capacitor Reforming Guide

IMPORTANT READ ME



After a electronic computer part/device that contains capacitors has been sitting in storage for a few years or even many years it needs to 'warm up” so the capacitors reform and “fix themselves”. You dont want to jump straight into the deep end and break stuff.



Graphics Card- Put into motherboard slot and plug gpu power cables in if the graphics card requires any, turn power supply on and plug power supply into motherboard but wait a few hours or even a day if its been in storage a looong time before turning pc on with power button



Motherboard- Connect power supply to motherboard and turn on power supply and plug in power supply but wait a few hours or even a day if its been in storage a looong time to power pc on with power button



Power Supply- plug power supply in and turn it on. Leave it on for a little while while doing nothing and not plugged into anything. Then plug into power supply into the Power Supply Start Up Jumper Bridge Tool that's also called a power supply self tester at times, (24 pin connector thats standalone that you plug power supply 24 pin into) NOT THE MOTHERBOARD. This allows the power supply to turn on while not being connected to a motherboard and only draw a little bit of power to reform capacitors, if the power supply has been in storage for a very long time, let it sit for a day like this, or even more than 1 day to be safe if you want. After that then plug the power supply into motherboard and let it sit for a little before pressing power button, after you let everything sit for a little turn the motherboard on with power button and then just sit in bios for a while, after that install an os but after the os is installed just let everything sit and dont do anything intensive for a little while.



After the reforming is done on a graphics card, power supply or motherboard let the pc sit in the bios for a little then after an os is installed just let it sit and do nothing for a while before you play a game or do something taxing on the system.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Looks like BS to me. You might wanna walk around the room waving your hands around while you’re playing Kazoo as well. It might even be more helpful

Where did you get this guide please stay away from that place

 

[Pc6777]

Looks like BS to me. You might wanna walk around the room waving your hands around while you’re playing Kazoo as well. It might even be more helpful

Where did you get this guide please stay away from that place

I made it for personal use i was gona print it

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Lol I wouldn’t call it accurate at all. It’s mumbo-jumbo. It’s been sitting around for years and it’s old and getting ready to break and there’s nothing you can do to stop it from breaking. Letting it sit inside your house for a while is a good idea if it’s been out in the cold of course but beyond that it’s all ridiculous. It doesn’t reform they don’t fix themselves

I think that kazoo treatment would be more effective to tell you the truth— That was a joke in case you couldn’t tell

 

[Pc6777]

Lol I wouldn’t call it accurate at all. It’s mumbo-jumbo. It’s been sitting around for years and it’s old and getting ready to break and there’s nothing you can do to stop it from breaking. Letting it sit inside your house for a while is a good idea if it’s been out in the cold of course but beyond that it’s all ridiculous. It doesn’t reform they don’t fix themselves

I store spare parts in bins well packaged inside at room tempature, and ive heard reforming caps can get psus in storage that havnt been powered on in a long time to work normal.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Well you can do whatever it is that makes you feel good but I know that parts get old and things break all the time. If you leave something in a parts been too long it’s going to get too old and wear out whether you use it or not. I have excepted the law of thermodynamics and the laws of physics which tell me that things get old and break on their own and I don’t resort to silly methods to try to restore them I just go buy a new part

I think it’s a more smart idea to just turn it on and if it breaks you know it’s junk because it’s going to break on you anyway

 

[AntonyLovric]

I've never heard of forming a computer (motherboard / GPU / PSU) capacitor. Large photographic flashes, VFD PSUs yes. Maybe if you're working on something that's say for like 10 years......