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I've had two boards to fail on me like this.

The first one was a MSI K7T Master-S Socket A workstation/low end server board with built-in adaptec U160 SCSI.

Luckily It was still under warranty but I had to fight with MSI to get it replaced.

The second one was a Epox 8RDA+ Nforce 2 Socket A motherboard. It never gave me any indications that it was failing up until when It died. I had left my computer running and when I sat down in front of it the next day it had a blank screen like the system had went into power saving mode. Despite all of my attempts to wake the system up I couldn't so in desperation I hit the reset button. The system wouldn't post and the Post code indicator kept stopping on the check memory part of POST.

I figured it had a bad memory stick or a bad video card or Power Supply. all of those checked out ok when I tested them in other systems, however when I removed the video card I discovered a busted and oozing capacitor, and upon closer inspection the capacitors around the memory slots had started to bulge.

Unfortunately that board had been out of warranty for about 4 months, so I purchased a inexpensive Amptron Nforce2 motherboard from Computer Geeks <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.compgeeks.com";>http://www.compgeeks.com</a>

If you're good with a soldering Iron and have access to junk motherboards you can replace the capacitors and make the board work again with a little work. I'm very bad with a Soldering Iron though so I haven't tried to fix my old Epox board yet.




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