Testament to GIGABYTE reliability

[Meatball]

I've had the Gigabyte GA-7VAX mobo for some time now in a workstation machine, and recently discovered the fact that several caps were dying.

Being the techie I am, I swapped out the mobo with another -7VAX and it was all good.

Upon further inspection of the hurting motherboard, I made a shocking discovery: 2 caps had bulged (all 6.3v 3300uF Choyo, they're on the cap-blacklist), but 2 others had failed. Quite spectacularily. Both had pushed their rubber caps clean out with electrolyte flowing down the board, and one was only hanging on by a lead. Here's the kicker: THE BOARD STILL BOOTS! It also passed all the PC-Doctor tests I threw at it. I was floored.

I have every intention of replacing these 4 caps with new ones, as soon as I get time and supplies.

WOW!

[shadow]

Re: Testament to GIGABYTE reliability

I have seen this before as well.

By the way, all the Choyo's will fail. You may as well replace them all rather than just the four visibly bad ones.

[Meatball]

Re: Testament to GIGABYTE reliability

Considering "the four visibly bad ones" DOES constitute all of the Choyo's, we're on the same page

The other ones are Rubycon, Sanyo, and Panasonic.

[Agent24]

Re: Testament to GIGABYTE reliability

Those other high quality caps are probably why it still works