I just found this site, and I'm fairly pi$$ed these motherboards are still out there with these faulty capacitors.
A few years ago I had an MSI mobo stop working all of a sudden and I chucked the board out (I'm not skilled at electronics or soldering). I thought I'd wrecked the board using a can of compressed air but now I know better...
As the title of this thread mentions, I had an EPoX EP-8K9AI board which I used in my gf's computer after upgrading to a P4 mobo. The EPoX has a few capacitors with the same brown corrosion/leakage on the tops as the MSI board had.
I've taken note of the this, but I'm not sure how long the mobo has before problems start affecting performance - I'm hoping at least six more months.
It's a real worry and significantly lessens my confidence in future motherboard purchases...
A few years ago I had an MSI mobo stop working all of a sudden and I chucked the board out (I'm not skilled at electronics or soldering). I thought I'd wrecked the board using a can of compressed air but now I know better...
As the title of this thread mentions, I had an EPoX EP-8K9AI board which I used in my gf's computer after upgrading to a P4 mobo. The EPoX has a few capacitors with the same brown corrosion/leakage on the tops as the MSI board had.
I've taken note of the this, but I'm not sure how long the mobo has before problems start affecting performance - I'm hoping at least six more months.
It's a real worry and significantly lessens my confidence in future motherboard purchases...
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