Bad Cap

[schoeds]

Hello everyone, my name is Jeremy and I've been hangin out here for the past few day just taking it all in. I just can't believe these little caps have caused such havock in modern electronics, quite interesting though. Although my problem is not of the same nature this site covers I'm hopeful you gentalmen will have some words of wisdom to offer up.

So heres my problem...




This is a P5N32-SLI Deluxe I just puchased on ebay, it is a factory refurb RMA from ASUS and came with no warranty of any kind. I have not fired it up yet as I do not have all the components necessary to do so but I'm fairly confident it is still functional. The part that burns my ass is that there was this "red dot" sticker over top of it as seen in the following photo...I assume to cover up the evidnece but by who? It was in a sealed electrostatic bag and RMA box supposidly from the manufacturer.



In any case I would like your opinions about this. I will be overclocking a Pentium D with this MOBO and I don't want a shorted cap to destroy anything. Based on information found on this excelent site I know its a Fujitsu FPCAP RE series L8 type I need to get my hands on but holy shit what a challange! So far my only options seem to be one os-con mismatch at roughly $20.00 or a matched set at $150.00...thats twice what I paid for the board! Any thoughts?


Jeremy

[willawake]

Re: Bad Cap

dont power it up like that. you could though remove that cap and see if it posts, i think it probably will.

i certainly wouldnt recap all of them just to have a matched set. but i would recommend to replace that one with an oscon sepc if you can find or otherwise there is chemicon PSA available at digikey very nice also.

[MD Willington]

Re: Bad Cap

nice cover-up... just one more reason I call Ebay FleaBay... the worlds largest junk sale!

[gonzo0815]

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I think it should not getting dammaged, if you fire it up with this cap. If the cap is shorted, i think the board would shut down. If not i should work. I can`t see how deep thi whole is, but if the inner things are not destroyed, it should be ok. But as always, the risk i yours.
However, i would not hesitate to install a similar speced Oscon. If the ESR and case size are roughly the same, this should be no problem.

[Maxxarcade]

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It almost looks like something physically scraped or poked the cap, not something that the cap itself caused. That's really odd that only that cap would be damaged and not anything else around it as well.

[schoeds]

Re: Bad Cap

dont power it up like that. you could though remove that cap and see if it posts, i think it probably will.

i certainly wouldnt recap all of them just to have a matched set. but i would recommend to replace that one with an oscon sepc if you can find or otherwise there is chemicon PSA available at digikey very nice also.

Thanks for the tip!!! I can't believe I missed the PSA series...I can get 11 of them for just $0.57 a piece! What a bargin! My only concern is that they are 3.5mm taller than OEM so my HSF selection might be an issue.

It almost looks like something physically scraped or poked the cap, not something that the cap itself caused. That's really odd that only that cap would be damaged and not anything else around it as well.

Agreed...if you notice that cap is directly inline with the center of the CPU, my theory is that this was caused by a screw or bolt from an HSF mount.