dead mobo

[rustyranger]

i am wondering if anyone here has had the fun of thier motherboard dying due to bad capaccitors
and if so did you change them on your own.

[MPXX]

Ha...damn those crappy caps!!

I lost a mobo earlier this year to bad caps...shitty G-Luxon ones with faulty electrolyte. I tried to replace them although the soldering iron I had only went up to 120C and the solder they used required a hotter iron near 200C (for heat purposes). SO I gave up and just bough a new Asus mobo for $80; and I'm sure glad I had a AMD socket A processor, I just popped in my ol' Athlon and it was actually better than before; it was like getting a new computer.

What you could do is try and get a good soldering iron and find a place where they sell good caps...
But I'd only recommend you replace your caps if your motherboard is an expensive one, because getting new individual caps may cost ya a bit of $$$; maybe even more than a new mobo.

I suggest take a look at www.badcaps.net if you haven't yet...the site's all about this problem.

[rustyranger]

thanks for site
i think i am going to try my hand at this. its not a pricey board but i really hate to to give up on a board that has never given me problems before.
and if i can do it for 50.00 dollars or less why not, so far the price of caps do not seem out of reach
i just hope my hands dont shake

[cpugeniusmv]

Before you do anything, the board is out of warranty right?

[rustyranger]

yes it is out of warrenty otherwise i would never even consider doing this
after all i am only so brave.

[Afn]

I suggest take a look at www.badcaps.net (http://www.badcaps.net/) if you haven't yet...the site's all about this problem.

interesting...

The reason this problem exists is because of a large-scale industrial espionage foul-up. Some companies decided to steal an electrolyte formula from another competitor. Little be known to them, the stolen formula was incomplete and flawed. They didn't discover this until it was too late and they had manufactured and distributed literally MILLIONS of these flawed capacitors. It was way too late for any kind of recall, and even today, these crappy components are being used in new Pentium IV motherboards!! I will be posting several links to articles and sources on the links page of this site. These go into extreme detail on the actual espionage ring and how this came about. This was the modern-day Rosenberg incident of industry...
The cause...
This inferior and flawed electrolyte formula was used by a number of component manufacturers that sold to many different, reputable, and well known motherboard manufacturers. This problem isn't isolated to one particular brand of motherboard, and not even isolated to motherboards alone. I won't mention brands, but a VERY popular monitor manufacturer has been plagued with RMA's on some of their monitors that were built using these inferior capacitors. This problem has been reported in computer motherboards, monitors, televisions, radios, and stereo equipment. Through my experiences owning a service center, I've personally seen and serviced a large number of 'high-end' equipment that had prematurely failed capacitors.

[rustyranger]

well just to let some know i went out and got the caps. spent all of 26.00 then it took a little more than a hour
to remove and install the new caps
prayed a little hooked it up to the psu. lo and behold it works.
it was not as bad as i thought it might be. its not that i am cheap i just dont like to give up on things i own
now all i have to do is learn to write code
thanks for the site about the bad caps
art

[MPXX]

Good work rusty!!
Glad you could fix it on your own...what motherboard was it by the way...and what was the brand of the faulty caps used if you remember...just curious

[rustyranger]

the board is a abit vh-6 and the caps were made by jpcon