Defective Capacitors on K8V Deluxe Motherboards?

[sweez]

From Asus' website regarding K8v deluxe motherboards:

(http://www.asus.com.tw/support/faq/qanda.aspx?KB_ID=85257)

It has been discovered recently that the nine electrolytic capacitors
CE18, CE19, CE20, CE21, CE22, CE25 , CE38, CE39, CE45 (see Figure1,
used at power stabilization circuitry) may expand and fracture. This
problem has been confirmed to result from quality control of RLZ 0333
capacitors, and proven to happen only on a small number of such
capacitors which can be easily distinguished from the RLZ 0333 marking
(see Figure 2) on them.

If you need further support after finding RLZ 0333 capacitors at these
nine locations, or experiencing symptom as described above on K8V
Deluxe motherboards, please kindly contact your place of purchase,
supplier, or the nearest ASUS service centre for immediate follow-up.

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We've got a bunch of these boards (6) in use in our offices. I've
checked them and found that, even though they were bought seperately
over the space of about 3 months, all of them have capacitors from
this RLZ 0333 batch. From my sample, at least, it seems that more than
a "small number" are from this batch.

None of the capacitors appear to have blown, but several of them seem
to have leaked a small amount - there is an unexplained brownish glob
of something on the top of them.

Can other people with this board check up and see if they have any of
the same RLZ 0333 capacitors, and or leakage? I'm going to get ours
replaced, but I'm a little concerned about just how big the scope of
the problem is.

Cheers
sweez.

 

[FRiC]

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We've got a bunch of these boards (6) in use in our offices. I've
checked them and found that, even though they were bought seperately
over the space of about 3 months, all of them have capacitors from
this RLZ 0333 batch. From my sample, at least, it seems that more than
a "small number" are from this batch.

None of the capacitors appear to have blown, but several of them seem
to have leaked a small amount - there is an unexplained brownish glob
of something on the top of them.

Can other people with this board check up and see if they have any of
the same RLZ 0333 capacitors, and or leakage? I'm going to get ours
replaced, but I'm a little concerned about just how big the scope of
the problem is.

I just got two K8V's. These are newly imported and should be new
batches (board revision 1.12). Of the nine capacitors, the three to
the right of the CPU socket are RLZ 0333, while the six in a row to
the left of the CPU socket are RLZ 0323.