The Hall of Shame - Badcaps Photo Montage

[kc8adu]

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those are from a tyan s2507.
looks like its never been used.
customer says it constantly bootloops and bsod's
several of the brown mystery caps are 10 ohms esr.

[olds425power]

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Ok, for my first post here is a shot of 5 popped caps on my Nvidia Geforce 6200 graphics card, kept getting a driver error which I took at first to be a Vista/Nvidia compatability issue.

There is no manufacturer name on them, they are silver with a blue semi-circle and text on top, FZ72 1000 6.3V. The pressure relief is "K" shaped.

I take it these are 1000 microfarad..any ideas on the manufacturer?

Cheers

[leekh]

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these are Sacon FZ series. they have extremely high failure rates.
Sacon=GSC=Evercon=extreme CRAP!!!

[kc8adu]

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samxon gd from evga socket 775 dated mid 2007.
had stability issues.trash on vdimm gave it away.
several samxon gc on vrm in were open too.

[bgavin]

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This is first bad news I've heard for Samxon. The use of GC on the VRM seems odd. Granted, the VRM-out is more critical, but shouldn't low ESR would be used everywhere on the VRM?

[kc8adu]

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not the first bad news at all.
gf and gl are known bad too.

[kc8adu]

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and another samxon death.this time gc

[kc8adu]

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hmm 3rd pic went corrupt on the camera.
codes are vda
105c8

[Big Pope]

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These bad Samxon on BBN 680i mobo, right?

[kc8adu]

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These bad Samxon on BBN 680i mobo, right?

its an evga.rebadged nvidia board.
now to figure out whether the caps are a bad batch,junk,or missaplied.
i just got 2 more on these with the same caps leaking.

[sofTest]

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Bulging Elite 1000uF 16V cap from a HP 1702 LCD monitor. Feel free to use.

[kc8adu]

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samxon gc
from an nvidia mobo rebadged evga.
less than a year old.
some 220@6.3 on vdimm leaking too.

[chipper]

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I take it that's an Intel Socket 478 Processor not a 775 , with it's 20pin connector.
Replace all the capacitors immediately. :

[Big Pope]

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samxon gc
from an nvidia mobo rebadged evga.
less than a year old.
some 220@6.3 on vdimm leaking too.

I am surely those are custom made batch for customers(always request by mobo factories), like the case as Intel mobo for Nichicon and Rubycon 820uF 6.3V D8x25mm.

Actually 220uF 6.3v have a risk for GC grade by technical problem. I never order those unreasonable stock from factory.

[Scenic]

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lookie what i found in a 1HE (1¾ Inch ; 44,45 mm high .. guess that its called "RU" instead of HE in english (HE = Höhen-Einheit (= Height Unit))) Server PSU.
PSU: EMACS MPW-6150F ("Auto Switching")
low profile PSU.. running rather hot because the only fan is a hard working (and thus VERY noisy) 40mm one...

busted hard..
PCE-TUR 10V 3300uF
the yellow stuff is just glue... found it everywhere in that psu... looked more like they glued the components in instead of soldering when i first looked at the PSU


the tops of those caps are still flat. but all of them had the rubber bungs more or less pushed out..

Weird thing is:

the only secondary side cap that survived was a freakin Fuhjyyu (on the 12V rail)

what the f....?! o.O

[PM650]

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Some bloated G-Luxons in an el-cheapo Austin-branded PSU:

(the jamicon is not original, I had already begun re-capping the psu)

Vented Jun Fu caps in an Allied-branded PSU:

For anyone noticing that there is not a single spec of dust in the psu, its because the caps failed from sitting for 4 years! The psu has exactly 0 hours of use, all it ever did was sit in my room. I was not at all pleased with this, as my psu (the Austin above) had just died and this Allied is all I had to replace it with.

sry... -.-'

BTW.. my A7N8X came with Rubycon MBZs everywhere.. and with only 1 fan connector above the AGP slot!?

Consider yourself lucky; my rev 1.04 came with the nichicons which I replaced a few weeks ago - they weren't too bad yet. Interestingly, the manual image for my 1.04 clearly shows K vents......

Fortunately my board now matches the manual with it's new MBZ's.

[kc8adu]

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yc(yellow crap?)
in an aspire psu.
could these be worse than fuhjyyu?
note the fuhkyyu were ok while these all hatched.

[Leopard]

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yc(yellow crap?)

Certainly seems like it!

[PCBONEZ]

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YC capacitors are common in Aspire power supplies.
Yes, they might be as bad as Fuhjyyu, just not so commonly used.

[Datz]

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Hi all, my graphics card went out on one of my pc's recently. (I had a back up luckily)
Here is a shot of the card below:


I am wondering if I should bother to try and replace them. I guess first step is to find the right replacement. Also, I am wondering whether to replace just the blow caps, or some others too.