Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

[willawake]

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

how long do visa warranty the goods for?

[bvchurch]

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

how long do visa warranty the goods for?

Kind of weird how it works but Visa will double the manufacturers warranty (up to 1 year extra). Basically what has to be done is send them the statement, copy of receipt, and a letter saying its defective. Once they receive this they will allow you to buy a replacement part, it could be greater than your original purchase price, but you will only be paid for the original purchase price.

[MD Willington]

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

Heya BV !

[bvchurch]

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

Heya BV !

Hey MD. So when you aren't modding the AMD forums I see you are here, or the lottery forums. Well hope you are doing well.

[larrymoencurly]

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

Mastercard: Original warranties of 12 months or less are doubled.
Visa: Original warranties of 36 months or less are doubled, by up to 12 months
American Express: Original warranties of 60 months or less are doubled, by up to 12 months.

I believe Visa and Mastercard extend warranties only on their Gold and Platinum cards, but some of their issuers offer their own warranty coverage for other versions of those cards.

[sofke]

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

Hi!

I have Gigabyte 7VAXP (purchased in December 2002) and until now I don't have any problems with system. But, in last two months I had a lot of random BSOD. I've reinstalled windows but BSOD are still presents. Two or three times in a year I do clean all in case, fans, and last week I discovered two suspicious caps. (pics are attached). If you notice I've replaced chipfan with heatsink because fan died after 8 months. Gigabyte is solid mobo but, chipsetfan and caps are shame for a company. I will replace caps next week.

Ivan
Belgrade, Serbia

[Chris1992]

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

Yes, the caps are bad. Nice choice of replacement northbridge heatsink, too.

[triplelatte]

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

I just replaced 9 bad ones on my GA-7VAXP ultra. the thing still ran great and never froze or crashed once. I was just doing my case dusting and noticed all the 3300uf GSC's where crusty and swollen in every which way the rest (which were GSC and supacon)were just swollen. I have great cooling in this case and the cpu never get's above 34c even after 7hrs of fragg'n. I used nichicon PW's and replaced every cap on the board (450uf and up) just to be safe since I do use the raid funcion of this board for speed not saftey now that got to checking all the PC's in my house, 7 total, and behold my file server has 3 swollen caps also but it is a bit older intel P3 933mhz on a MSI MATX board so it does not suprise me since it has had about 90% uptime for the last 3 years. all the rest seem ok for now. so now I have to order more caps from mouser.com. By the way my NB fan died in 4 months, Gigabyte wanted me to send it back for a RMA but i just went and bought another one that has lasted ever since.

[starfury1]

Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, GA-7VAXP

Gday all

First post on this forum so if I stuff up let me know.

Regards to orginal start of this post.
I too have a GA-7ZXE (rev 1.1) that has fallen foul of the same 5 caps
(TC 11,12,13,17,31) GSC, others all appear to be choyo

I notice that willawake in a previous post replace theses with panasonics FC series, Ditto me too and the board so far is stable.

Same problem thought...not a great fit due to size.

Upon reflection and reading this forum I should have done the lot and will next time I pull it down.

OK now I have GA-VXP-ultra (rev 1.2) and from what I can see it using Rubycon's (mostly if the the top of the caps are anything to go by)and after the above problem, checked it so far they look ok.

So I guess with the GA-7ZXE, it not a matter of if but more a matter of when....so if you got one and are have problems or not check the caps.

If anyone whats pics I will post but rather not jam up the post with more if no need.

Cheers all