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    #1

    Leaking Capacitor?

    Excuse my ignorance, is this enough evidence of a leaking capacitor.?
    If not whats happening?
    I would like to RMA this motherboard.
    Cheers for any comments in advance.
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    #2
    Re: Leaking Capacitor?

    No. Is it soft and pliable?
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      #3
      Re: Leaking Capacitor?

      Looks more like someone dripped thermal paste on it, if you wipe the residue off the cap are there any splits in the casing? That is a polymer cap (well functional polymer), those very rarely fail/leak, especially on a brand new board.

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        Re: Leaking Capacitor?

        Thanks for replies, I will inspect further, the last 2 weeks the board fails to boot after a few hours unplugged from power without messing around with the bios/psu. Its just plays dead, no life at all. Have tried three different quality power supplies to no avail. When it does eventually boot the PC tends to behave normally, but I have had 2 random reboots (no bsod) the same evening after the pc had been on a 3-4 hours. It doesnt get a lot of use. Maybe a couple of hours a day. Mobo is only 18 mths old. Its the first time I have paid big dollaros and its the only one thats played up on me. I usually go the best value, but splashed out. Go figure!

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          #5
          Re: Leaking Capacitor?

          Looks like it was tim, Iit was soft and pliable, cleaned it off as best I could, Well that was embarrasing!
          Thanks for your quick replies.

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