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    Identifying the Cause of Bad Caps

    Hi,

    My graphics card supplier, after a long and drawn out "debate" has agreed to take a look at my card to see if their was a manufacturing fault.

    The card has blown four caps in as many weeks and I have used two different power supplies in this time.

    My question is this... I have a feeling that the supplier may have a look at the card and try to imply that there is a power issue (as this was mentioned already), I need to know if it is possible for their engineer to tell if this is the case from looking at the card alone?

    My initial thought was this would be impossible, but I am no electronics expert.

    I'd appreciate a little help.

    Thanks,

    J
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    #2
    Re: Identifying the Cause of Bad Caps

    Can you show us a picture of the card?
    "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

    -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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      #3
      Re: Identifying the Cause of Bad Caps

      i would think a power issue that bad would have destroyed the semiconductors.

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        #4
        Re: Identifying the Cause of Bad Caps

        What power supplies were you using? Even so, as stj said, a bad psu would have caused more than just the caps.

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