Just had a quick check around the office, 5 of the 6 of this particular
model of motherboard are affected with leaking caps. The one PC that isn't
is mine!

The worst ones (2) will reboot randomly every minute or so even when not
doing anything, the lightest affected one reboots or blue screens when you
make it work hard...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liam O'Hagan [SMTP:liam@GLI.COM.AU]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:24 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [OT:] Mobo capacitors
>
> It just so happens that a couple of people here today complained that
> their
> PC's were unstable, rebooting or blue screening every time they did any
> sort
> of processor or power intensive work
>
> All are running MSI 63xx serties motherboards, and all had bulging or
> burst
> capacitors! The degree of bulging or ooze evident was directly
> proportional
> to the instability of their PC's
>
> Managemen'ts response (despite I've performed this repair at home, and the
> capacitors cost $3.30 each), buy new computers to replace them....
>
> I'm going to see if I can pick up the 'dead' ones for a small fee, fix
> them
> and hand them out to various family members who have slow PC's ;)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jamie [SMTP:jamie@GNULIFE.ORG]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 4:04 PM
> > To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject:      Re: [OT:] Mobo capacitors
> >
> >    We had this same problem where I work. All 30 of our ABIT VP6 boards
> > had to go back to have the caps replaced. Some were bulged, others
> oozing
> > brown fluid from the tops. On one occasion our office manager was
> bending
> > over a running board and a capacitor blew up right in his face with a
> loud
> > "POP" and it shot brownish dust at his face.
> >
> >    I was told that someone stole some plans for capacitor construction,
> > and the plans they stole for their company contained an ingredient which
> > would cause the capacitor to self destruct when put into production.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, john chung wrote:
> >
> > > I have taken a look at the caps in my motherboard. I believe 2 of my
> MSI
> > > mobo
> > > contains crappy caps. Suprisingly my Intel SE440BX mobo has nichicon
> > caps!
> > >
> > > The reviews from HardOCP has identified that Intel D875PBZ
> > > <article.html?art=NDYw> uses Nichicon and Rubycon capacitors.
> > >
> > > After suffering a bad experience with mobo, I will look at caps before
> > > buying the mobo. Too much hassle
> > > to fix the problem! We pay good money for our equipment.
> > >
> > > Input please.
> > > John Chung
> > >
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