Busted Caps in my A$$?

pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
edited June 2004 in Hardware
Well, I think my Epox board finally bit the dust along with everyone elses. Came home on Weds to find my secondary rig had locked up (Epox 8RDA+, AMD 2100+ etc etc). Tried to reboot, no go. No post no nothing. I didn't have any time so I let it be over the weekend. Got back and got down to business. No post beep at all and the HD light stays solid for an abnormal period; the board code is FF. Clear CMOS=no go, swap mem no go, don't realllly want to do processors because thats a bit of work to take down my other machine. After looking at it though, it seems four of the caps near the parallel port are bloated and have some orange goo on them. Sounds as if this is a bad cap situation that had been going around awhile back. Sound right to those of you out there who have experienced this?

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Yeah. Your caps are leaking electrolyte, sounds brokeded to me, mate.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Yeah, thats what I thought. Oh well, new board time. I already have a NF7-S, what else is out there that may be interesting to play with?
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    DFI Ultra Lanparty III.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited June 2004
    qparadox wrote:
    DFI Ultra Lanparty III.


    Just be aware of quality probs & sh!tty official bios support. Unofficial support is good & the high fsb are great, just make sure you have quality ram to put in it.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited June 2004
    Doesn't i hurt to have busted caps in your a$$? :eek:

    If you want to continue using the board for something, you could change the caps.
    Unless the electrolyte has damaged anything on the motherboard itself.

    BTW Under similar threads this was among the chosen threads.
    "Al Gore's son busted with pot"
    I must admit that I found that quite funny. ;D
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited June 2004
    Epox will replace the caps for around $12, but they don't check the board out to see if the caps borked anything else on the mobo, unlike Abit. I sent a 8KHA+ back to have the caps replaced and it came back DOA and all they said was, "Though sh1t, bud, you're out all shipping costs and still have a borked board".:mad:
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    Epox needs to feel the wrath of a class action lawsuit ... they're by far the worst offender in the whole "capacitor" affair.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    qparadox wrote:
    Epox needs to feel the wrath of a class action lawsuit ... they're by far the worst offender in the whole "capacitor" affair.

    Well, I can't blame them too bad. The amount of time it took for mine to go is probably beyond the testing they do, and I'm sure they don't test too hard for Overclocking stuff (Since they don't have to). More a supplier quality issue than anything, just like those idiots at Firestone.

    I'm not going to bother with replacing the caps or sending it back. I'll just pick up something else. Maybe an 8RDA3+ or something (Still an Epox fanboy). No need for the DFI since the ram will only do around 180 FSB (generic Samsung).
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Their caps have been dying wholesale since the days of the KT266A.

    That's inexcusable.
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    Yeah all indications are that the mobo manufacturers knew of the problems sometime in 2002 at the latest but Epox used the caps for 18 months. That's inexcusable and clearly negligent.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    qparadox wrote:
    Yeah all indications are that the mobo manufacturers knew of the problems sometime in 2002 at the latest but Epox used the caps for 18 months. That's inexcusable and clearly negligent.

    Ahhh, I thought it was just an early run 8RDA+ problem.
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    I had an EPOX NF2 Ultra 400 board (can't remember the number) that blew its caps about 3 months into its life. Funniest thing was it was a trivia prize at a lan party from an Nvidia rep.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited June 2004
    pseudonym wrote:
    I'm not going to bother with replacing the caps or sending it back. I'll just pick up something else. Maybe an 8RDA3+ or something (Still an Epox fanboy). No need for the DFI since the ram will only do around 180 FSB (generic Samsung).

    OUCH! That Caps issue sucks! :(

    However the Epox 8RDA6+ Pro (NVidia NForce2 Ultra 400 / with Gigabit MCP) is coming!

    Key Specifications
      <li>nVidia nForce2 Ultra400+Gigabit MCP chipsets <li>Support 462-pin socket A AMD Athlon XP processors 1500+ to 3400+ <li>3 Dual Channel DDR-400 DIMMs <li>5 PCI slots; 1 AGP8X slot <li>8 USB2.0 ports; 2 1394a ports <li>Gigabit Ethernet port with Firewall support <li>8CH Audio, support SPDIF Coaxial/Optical output <li>2 S-ATA ports with up to 150MBs bandwidth <li>4 S-ATA ports from Silicon Image Sil-3114 with up to 150MBs bandwidth with RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 support <li>EZ Boot, Magic Health, Power BIOS, Magic Flash, Magic Screen
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited June 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    Their caps have been dying wholesale since the days of the KT266A.

    That's inexcusable.

    Actually bad caps have been around since KT133/KT133A.
    Dunno when the manufacturers found out that there was a quality issue?

    I love the fact that the whole thing is caused by industrial espionage gone wrong.
    When you are trying to steal something, make sure you get the whole rescipe. ;D
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited June 2004
    Omega65 wrote:
    OUCH! That Caps issue sucks! :(

    However the Epox 8RDA6+ Pro (NVidia NForce2 Ultra 400 / with Gigabit MCP) is coming!

    Key Specifications
      <li>nVidia nForce2 Ultra400+Gigabit MCP chipsets <li>Support 462-pin socket A AMD Athlon XP processors 1500+ to 3400+ <li>3 Dual Channel DDR-400 DIMMs <li>5 PCI slots; 1 AGP8X slot <li>8 USB2.0 ports; 2 1394a ports <li>Gigabit Ethernet port with Firewall support <li>8CH Audio, support SPDIF Coaxial/Optical output <li>2 S-ATA ports with up to 150MBs bandwidth <li>4 S-ATA ports from Silicon Image Sil-3114 with up to 150MBs bandwidth with RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 support <li>EZ Boot, Magic Health, Power BIOS, Magic Flash, Magic Screen


    With all that was just said in this thread about epox and you still recommend another board from them...

    Gobbles
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    It's omega. It's to be expected.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    It's omega. It's to be expected.
    Takes all sorts to make a world go round.. and everyone has their luck and favourites ;)

    /me pats MSI boards lying around the joint. Love 'em or hate 'em.. they work damn well. :cool:
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    I still love my Epox board despite the problem. That thing took all the abuse I could give it and it finally died. I think I'm going to try and send it back to get another one, but I'm going to buy an AN7 because they have hopefully cleared up their issues with that board.

    //edit Just started to RMA it, we'll see what happens. If all goes well, I'll have another folding rig maybe.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited June 2004
    Gobbles wrote:
    With all that was just said in this thread about epox and you still recommend another board from them...

    Gobbles

    I owned about 10 Epox mobos from the including the 8KHA+, 8K5A2+, 8K9A2+ (& 3+), 8RDA+, 8KRA2+ and now the 4PCA3+. I never had a problem that I wasn't the cause of. I prefer them over Abit (a good brand) and I've owned about 5 different Abit's also

    People with problems always yell louder than those who are satisfied. Go to Abit, MSI, DFI, Gigabyte, Asus forums, etc and you'll get the impression that each brand sucks. (Gigabyte do suck though ;) )

    Thrax hates Epox (his warranted opinion), my experience is different. I have an opposing viewpoint.

    If I was a Democrat we could really get something going... :D
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