SOYO DRAGON 2 V1.0

The SOYO DRAGON 2 is an Intel Socket 478 motherboard released around 2004. It is based on the Intel 875P chipset, and features one 1.5v AGP 4x/8x slot, five 5V PCI slots, four PC3200 DIMM slots, four IDE headers, four SATA I headers, and one floppy drive header.

Causes

 * Poor quality electrolyte, causing premature failure
 * Heat from the socket rising, potentially causing the caps to degrade faster.

Solutions

 * Replace capacitors with modern ones

Motherboard VRMs
P4ICW, P4ICW2, P4ICWB

Motherboard VRMs
If parts are not available or different selection is preferred, you can use the values in the Original Parts section to perform a parametric search.

Related Links

 * Badcaps.net forum post about replacing capacitors in on this motherboard
 * TheRetroWeb.com page for the P4ICW and P4ICWB model motherboards
 * TheRetroWeb.com page for the P4ICW2 model motherboard