I bought a Abit vp6 on ebay with 2 socket 370 tulatin 1ghz's. The gentleman told me that it was from a working system, but was pulled quite a while ago because the computer was acting weird. I thought maybe it was just the OS went bad, or other hardware. So i bought it, and ordered 2 heatsinks and a 512 stick of pc133 mushkin ram. It arrived, but the heatsinks were of very poor quality, so I got a refund from newegg (and i got to keep them, too 
) and ordered some better quality ones for the same price. They arrived, they fit. So i seated the VP6 in the case, and hooked everything up, put in the AGP 4x Nvidia FX5200, sound blaster 16, 10/100 lan card, netgear 54G wifi card (all good because they are in the computer i'm using now,) and pushed the power button. No beep codes, all the fans spun up, but about 1 second later, I heard a loud POP, followed shortly by another. I hit the psu's power switch and ripped all the cords from the computer and pulled it out to see what happened.
Turns out two of the capacitors blew on the motherboard. All the mobo's capacitors are Jackcon, some are bowing out a little bit, may have to address those, but these two literally exploded (from the top luckily.) I hope it was just because it sat too long, and putting the power strain to run 2 1.75v processors that may still be overclocked if it ever was, and 2 80mm fans on the heatsinks was too much. I've seen bad capacitors, but I've never seen any explode, luckily no voltage regulators are out, there's no black spots on the motherboard, there was no smoke (except what I think was the hydrogen gas, correct me if i'm wrong, that built up in the caps that caused it to explode.) so hopefully I can just replace those caps, power it on, see if any more explode, and get on with finally using this mobo.
Theres a attachment of the exploded caps
) and ordered some better quality ones for the same price. They arrived, they fit. So i seated the VP6 in the case, and hooked everything up, put in the AGP 4x Nvidia FX5200, sound blaster 16, 10/100 lan card, netgear 54G wifi card (all good because they are in the computer i'm using now,) and pushed the power button. No beep codes, all the fans spun up, but about 1 second later, I heard a loud POP, followed shortly by another. I hit the psu's power switch and ripped all the cords from the computer and pulled it out to see what happened. Turns out two of the capacitors blew on the motherboard. All the mobo's capacitors are Jackcon, some are bowing out a little bit, may have to address those, but these two literally exploded (from the top luckily.) I hope it was just because it sat too long, and putting the power strain to run 2 1.75v processors that may still be overclocked if it ever was, and 2 80mm fans on the heatsinks was too much. I've seen bad capacitors, but I've never seen any explode, luckily no voltage regulators are out, there's no black spots on the motherboard, there was no smoke (except what I think was the hydrogen gas, correct me if i'm wrong, that built up in the caps that caused it to explode.) so hopefully I can just replace those caps, power it on, see if any more explode, and get on with finally using this mobo.
Theres a attachment of the exploded caps
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But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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