"Russell McMahon" <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message 
news:014501c819b0$9be1bca0$e701a8c0@y2k...
> My friend Ken Mardle says (also citing the above article):
>
> There is a well-known problem with 1000uF/6V3 electrolytic
> capacitors dying
> on nVidia GeForce FX5200 video adaptor cards in Dell 8300
> PC's.  The caps
> are in some kind of local switchmode voltage regulator.
> There are four
> identical caps on the board and typically two of them bulge
> (and in some
> cases leak electrolyte) and develop very high leakage (100's
> of mA @ 5V in
> my case).  The card stops working or displays random stripes
> and other junk.

I had the same sort of problem with ECS K7S-5A motherboards.  Three of us at 
work bought this motherboard and they all eventually died.  I fixed mine by 
replacing pretty much all the big caps I could with new ones.  The ones I 
didn't replace with new ones, I replaced with ones that looked good that I 
pulled from another (dead) motherboard.

Jeff
-- 
    "When transportation is cheap, frequent, reliable, and flexible, 
everything else becomes easier."
- Jon Goff 



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