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Capacitor's dying? KT7

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Rav

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I have an older Abit KT7 motherboard, running my 800Mhz Athlon. I was looking at it today to see if a heatsink would fit, when I noticed some of the capacitors near the socket didn't look right. Two of them had brown spots on their tops at the centers (silver area where the X is). The tops also looked like they are bulging outward. The other caps on the board are flat on top and look fine. I'm a bit concerned since I remembered a front page article about bad caps on Abit boards. The board has been stable and even overclocked a bit. Should I be worried? Should I replace this board? What kind of damage would be inflicted if those caps would go?

Thanks.

-Rav
 
i just had a computer start rebooting here at the office like every 20 minutes and tried all i could think of (isolating it on another circuit, swap out the ps, swap out ram) and then i remembered that article on the front page cause this was an abit VH6 socket 370 board. gutted the system and found 8 bulging caps, and 2 with the brown spots in the middle. I'd be shopping for a new board if i were you.
 
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