Just pulled out one of my machines and have a routine look at it for any infamous bad capacitors, and lo and behold, I've found two towards the lower right hand side of the board (using the PCI slots as a reference as the top left hand corner).
Here's some photos of the capacitors, plus another two that's somewhere in the middle of the board that looked a bit dodgy, but not quite bloated:
I also had a look at the other electrolytic caps around the board, and it is a cocktail of bad capacitor brands:
Tayeh
Teapo
GSC
So far, only the GSC caps are bloated, the others seems fine.
I had this board for over 2 years now, and the board seemed stable. Although I'll be replacing those caps soon. Speaking of which, does anyone knows a good place to buy capacitors within Australia. (The local electronics chain doesn't seem to stock the caps I wanted.)
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By Administrator: I saved your pics to my server and resized them for easier viewing.
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Here's some photos of the capacitors, plus another two that's somewhere in the middle of the board that looked a bit dodgy, but not quite bloated:
I also had a look at the other electrolytic caps around the board, and it is a cocktail of bad capacitor brands:
Tayeh
Teapo
GSC
So far, only the GSC caps are bloated, the others seems fine.
I had this board for over 2 years now, and the board seemed stable. Although I'll be replacing those caps soon. Speaking of which, does anyone knows a good place to buy capacitors within Australia. (The local electronics chain doesn't seem to stock the caps I wanted.)
<EDIT>
By Administrator: I saved your pics to my server and resized them for easier viewing.
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