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    Another 945GCM5 - SMD capacitor burned through PCB

    A customer at work brought his PC in not POSTing. I pulled the side off, and immediately noticed something that there was a pretty decent sized burn mark near the ATX power connector. It looks like a small surface mounted capacitor went up in flames. Initially, I thought that the board might be repairable, as I still have the poly-modded 945GCM5 board at home, so I could probably figure out what value it was. However, now that it's out of the case I don't think I'll bother. That cap has actually burned all the way through the PCB...
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    I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

    No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

    Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

    Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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    Re: Another 945GCM5 - SMD capacitor burned through PCB

    I've never seen that before. Was the PSU that was powering it bad? Is that a bulged Teapo at the top corner of the board?

    . However, now that it's out of the case I don't think I'll bother. That cap has actually burned all the way through the PCB...
    Yeah...Who knows what kind of damage occurred on the layers that you can't see.

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      #3
      Re: Another 945GCM5 - SMD capacitor burned through PCB

      The PSU was fine, actually. It was an In Win IP-S400CQ2-0. And yes, that El-cheapo Teapo cap in the corner there by the RAM is indeed bad, but there are enough caps that appear to be OK downstream of it in the VRM that I don't think it should stop it from POSTing.

      I decided to clean some of the soot off the board. The pads for that SMD part are completely gone and there's a little crater in the PCB, and I can see what looks to be copper on the edges of it underneath the top layer, so I'm almost certain that other layers are damaged. I'll upload some pictures a bit later.
      Last edited by c_hegge; 02-04-2015, 11:31 PM.
      I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

      No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

      Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

      Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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        #4
        Re: Another 945GCM5 - SMD capacitor burned through PCB

        As promised, here's the crater.
        Attached Files
        I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

        No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

        Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

        Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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          #5
          Re: Another 945GCM5 - SMD capacitor burned through PCB

          Saw the same thing in someone's LCD monitor in another thread. I guess where high currents are concerned, ceramics are just as bad as tantalums when they short!

          Bet that one smells lovely.
          "Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
          -David VanHorn

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            #6
            Re: Another 945GCM5 - SMD capacitor burned through PCB

            ceramics can be worse, they short out like a lump of copper.
            i'v had a tv where a shorted ceramic made a long track burn right up leaving not much more than a line of soot!

            tantalums self-imiolate like a pissed-off indian, but ceramics put up a fight!
            now i wonder what a failed Niobium cap does - because i am starting to see those in things.

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              #7
              Re: Another 945GCM5 - SMD capacitor burned through PCB

              ^
              Overvolt one and find out
              I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!

              No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards

              Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium

              Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 Pro

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                #8
                Re: Another 945GCM5 - SMD capacitor burned through PCB

                they dont come cheap you know!

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