EP-8RDA3 rev2.1 bad caps? (+fotos)
Hello everybody,
Could you please give me your opinion on the capacitors shown in the attached fotos? They don't look as cleary bulged out from the center as other shots in this forum, but still, though the "quarters" look bulged out to me... There is no leakage of electrolyte to be seen or smelled, though, and the bases seem ok, too. (Note: the caps are still perfectly upright, the fotos just have a little wide-angle distortion)
System symptoms:
After running flawlessly for almost two years the system began to just turn off randomly. I had to unplug the power chord to get it to boot again. Then one day it just didn't boot anymore. The onboard lcd display just shows post code FF, the cpu fan works but nothing else. No speaker beep, the drives don't even get power. The system has been used extensively, running linux with months of uptime. I never touched the bios (updates or replacements). I never changed anything else of the hardware, i never overclocked the cpu.
According to the motherboard manual, the FF post code indicates "boot attempt", and hanging there can be caused by incorrectly inserted ram, cards or bios chips, or simply indicates a "mainboard problem" (suggested solution: "replace mainboard"). Since i didn't do any of the former, I guess I'm stuck with a "mainboard problem".
What i tried:
Flashing the bios, removing the battery overnight, removing all addon-cards, unplugging ide and floppy drives, removing cpu and ram. Nothing worked, still just FF.
I even took the board out of the case and powered it on all by itself, but no use.
I was following the advise given in forums concerning this motherboard, though most threads were about post code FF in connection with overclocking/bios updates.
I also measured the PSU which delivers the correct voltage and power on all connectors (I turned it on completely by bridging the PW_ON slots on the 20-pin connector).
I believe this verifies that the mainboard is to blame. I'd like to know wether recapping could be an option, but i'm just not sure wether the caps look normal or not.
System setup:
Epox 8rda3 rev1.2 mainboard
ATX 300w P4 PSU
Athlon XP2200
512mb DDR 333 infinion ram
NVidia Geforce MX440-8x
SBLive!
Tv card
Regards,
Henning
Could you please give me your opinion on the capacitors shown in the attached fotos? They don't look as cleary bulged out from the center as other shots in this forum, but still, though the "quarters" look bulged out to me... There is no leakage of electrolyte to be seen or smelled, though, and the bases seem ok, too. (Note: the caps are still perfectly upright, the fotos just have a little wide-angle distortion)
System symptoms:
After running flawlessly for almost two years the system began to just turn off randomly. I had to unplug the power chord to get it to boot again. Then one day it just didn't boot anymore. The onboard lcd display just shows post code FF, the cpu fan works but nothing else. No speaker beep, the drives don't even get power. The system has been used extensively, running linux with months of uptime. I never touched the bios (updates or replacements). I never changed anything else of the hardware, i never overclocked the cpu.
According to the motherboard manual, the FF post code indicates "boot attempt", and hanging there can be caused by incorrectly inserted ram, cards or bios chips, or simply indicates a "mainboard problem" (suggested solution: "replace mainboard"). Since i didn't do any of the former, I guess I'm stuck with a "mainboard problem".
What i tried:
Flashing the bios, removing the battery overnight, removing all addon-cards, unplugging ide and floppy drives, removing cpu and ram. Nothing worked, still just FF.
I even took the board out of the case and powered it on all by itself, but no use.
I was following the advise given in forums concerning this motherboard, though most threads were about post code FF in connection with overclocking/bios updates.
I also measured the PSU which delivers the correct voltage and power on all connectors (I turned it on completely by bridging the PW_ON slots on the 20-pin connector).
I believe this verifies that the mainboard is to blame. I'd like to know wether recapping could be an option, but i'm just not sure wether the caps look normal or not.
System setup:
Epox 8rda3 rev1.2 mainboard
ATX 300w P4 PSU
Athlon XP2200
512mb DDR 333 infinion ram
NVidia Geforce MX440-8x
SBLive!
Tv card
Regards,
Henning
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