Capacitor Expansion On Motherboard

Capacitors on a IMPERIAL GLA have expanded and causing problems????????

Abnormalities with a motherboard are best resolved
by replacing the motherboard with a new one.

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"Btfdffemt" wrote:

| Capacitors on a IMPERIAL GLA have expanded and causing problems????????

Btfdffemt wrote:
> Capacitors on a IMPERIAL GLA have expanded and causing
> problems????????

This is a common problem with many brands of motherboards. If you have the
right equipment and skills you can replace the capacitors. Very few people
have the right equipment and skills. Replace the motherboard. Most brands
will warranty it if within the warranty period.

Kerry

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
news:%23jf$CuhEGHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Btfdffemt wrote:
> > Capacitors on a IMPERIAL GLA have expanded and causing
> > problems????????
>
> This is a common problem with many brands of motherboards. If you have the
> right equipment and skills you can replace the capacitors. Very few people
> have the right equipment and skills. Replace the motherboard. Most brands
> will warranty it if within the warranty period.
>
> Kerry
>

Frequently the capacitors are in parallel with others and you can snip off
the bad ones. There are class action lawsuites over leaky capacitors. I
know that ABIT has/had a return program and you can google for others
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...p+class+action

I had a cap blow up on an ASUS motherboard. It was still under warranty so
I returned it, not bothering to check to see if it still worked. They sent
it back with a note they could not find anything wrong. ASUS seems to use
more caps than are absolutely required so you can get by with a couple
missing.

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In article <11rqofak9ihhq04@corp.supernews.com>, jstateson@swri.edu
says...
> Frequently the capacitors are in parallel with others and you can snip off
> the bad ones. There are class action lawsuites over leaky capacitors. I
> know that ABIT has/had a return program and you can google for others
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...p+class+action
>
> I had a cap blow up on an ASUS motherboard. It was still under warranty so
> I returned it, not bothering to check to see if it still worked. They sent
> it back with a note they could not find anything wrong. ASUS seems to use
> more caps than are absolutely required so you can get by with a couple
> missing.

While they don't "use more than required" it's based on ripple rejection
and the load will change how much you need. If you have a clean PSU then
you might not need as much, a dirty PSU and you might need more.

The problem with CAP's expanding has been around for a long time and is
not limited to Motherboards - I have (had) 3 linksys routers that
suffered from the same problem.

Replacing the CAP's on a multi-layer board is best left to trained
people with soldering stations designed for multilayer boards.

Clipping the bad cap off the board, even if the board still works, is
asking for intermittent problems at some point.

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