"Exploding" capicitor on mobo...

[wailly]

Ok, I find this very interesting and as I recalled, I only see this scenario in some other Asia forum:

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You can see that the capacitor is leaking liquid, or appears to be about to "pop". Anyone knows why this happens? I never have this happened to me. Could it be due to overclocking, i.e., running too high voltage? Too hot?

 

[Flinx]

<A HREF="http://www.motherboardrepair.com" target="_new">http://www.motherboardrepair.com</A>
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Capacitors may bulge or leak when they fail. Most motherboards "die" due to faulty/poor quality/inappropriate capacitors.

The loving are the daring!

 

[ithian1]

This is or was a very common problem.....from what i hear a major contracter tried to steal technology from a Asian based company and must not have done it successfully.

IBM just replaced all 3 mobo's in the office i work in due to the same prob.

In short you did nothing wrong,....just crap capacitors :/

btw what kind of board was it?....just to cure my own curiousity

 

[Crashman]

<A HREF="http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/index.asp?layout=article&articleId=CA255062&title=Search+Results&publication=e-insite&webzine=e-insite&rid=0&rme=0&cfd=1" target="_new">Here's the article I spawned some time ago by complaining in the right place</A> The author barely acknowledged my contributuion.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

 

[wailly]

I believed one of the board shown is Magic Pro (widely use here in Hong Kong) and the other one is a Abit KT7A. I've heard others have this happened to them with Gigabyte and 2theMax (Epox) too.

 

[Flinx]

I thought Abit had switched to the rubycons (sp??)?????

The loving are the daring!

 

[wailly]

I have been using various Abit boards for a long time, but never pay attention to what cap they use.

I think Abit uses Rubycons caps, but they also use different caps depending on production batch, as they must have multiple supplier for caps.

 

[JimmyDean]

Me and my dad replaced like 4 caps on our old MSI KT7 Pro or something. When one of them went it took out the PSU, Vid card, and hard drive. Its workin great now. It has like nothing to do really with cheap caps used, maybe a little but mostly its a wear and tear type deal