Blown Capacitor

<img src="http://www.unnovation.com/epoch/blown_capacitor.jpg" alt="blown capacitor">

Need I say more.

Does Gigabyte have a warrantee for this kinda thing? I bought the mobo about a year ago.

EDIT: For whatever reason I can't get the image to work inline. What a pooper.

No warranty

Hi Buddy,
I don't think u will get warranty for that one cause it is physical damage and no matter they won't accept your explnaton. Did u try to replace them with identcal ones or little bit high capacity one? Well in the overclockers.com web site i saw a artical abt replacing a blown capacitor. So If u're really not god with soldering give it to someone else and try it. By the way show it to the phurchase place and see weither you're lucky if not jump to the second method. Whish u all the best.

Nope, no hacking capacitors in any way shape or form (or any place else on the mobo for that matter). I've also got an Antec True power supply with a heavy duty surge protector. I'm pretty sure nothing I did would cause this.

re: This on Slashdot ahile back

Sounds like that bunch of bad caps alot of companys got ahold of last year I have the same board but i got it this year thankfuly I'd e-mail gigbyte send in that pic to couldnt hurt

I tend to have different beliefs, and that is, whatever you could possibly do to that board, would not cause a cap to leak like that. I run a power hungry GF4 TI4600 along with a XP2100 and showed now sign of cap failures, it just happens sometimes. Look at abit back the slot 1 days. I wish I remembered the name of the caps they used.

But none the less if your baord is in warrenty then the should fix it, but why wait? Just do it yourself, in a matter of a half hour, rather than two months waiting for gigabyte.

Is your caps made by GSC?

Those look like Chhsi capacitors. I have two that went on a 2 year old MSI board. Same dark blue caps leaking electrolyte at the tops. They cause my board to lockup when using an AGP video card.

Al

This is somewhat old in the making, since I have been neglecting everything computer related for the past few weeks to sort out problems with my girl.....

But I have called Gigabyte and they have sent me forms to get an RMA number. The person on the phone explained that this would cost me about $10 + S/H, which doesn't seem to bad to have some newer capacitors stuck in to replace the shotty ones.

Anywho, I'll be sending my board in sometime in the next few weeks to see if this fixes any of my random bluescreen problems and will post here.

btw, the number for Gigabyte repair support in the US is 626-854-9338 ext 222 or 224. Hope this helps out.

I hope im not to late!

For $10SH and whatever they charge for new caps and labor you can do it yourself or pay an electronic shop to do it. That way you get it done in a few hours rather than a few weeks if not a month.

Trust me it is very easy. If you are at all interested in doing it yourself let me know and I will give you directions on how to do it.

Well I decided to sell my whole computer, minus the kb/mouse/monitor.....

So I'm going to resolder the caps because my friend wants the mobo quick, and I do feel this would be a good solution for all of the higher yeild caps (I'm assuming the larger ones) to be resoldered, along with any caps that appear to be bulging.

So down the electronics store it is....

Have any tips for doing the caps? I have basic soldering skills, enough not to make a righteous mess of it all. Think I should hire someone to do it still?

Thanks for the input.