Re: A7M266-D - blown capasitor?

Anders Frostad Pedersen schrieb:
>
> I've got an asus A7M266-D board for amd MP processors.
> The board had been running fine for about a year,
> when after upgrading the cpu fans things went bad.
>
> What happens is that the pc stays powered on for about 3-4 seconds,
> then just turn itself off, without even booting into the BIOS or
> starting any system checks. (no beep codes)
>
> I stripped the pc down, and still the same error, ie. no faulty
> disks/ram/power supply (even swapped the psu).
>
> After taking out the mobo it seems like one of the capasitors
> has a "bulky" surface, kinda rised on the top. Along with that
> there is some brown substance on top of it.
> Might this be a leaky capasitor?

This most certainly *is* one. I'd think this should be a case for an
RMA, a cap shouldn't go bad after one year.

Stephan
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