ECS D6VAA Bad Caps!!

[Belial]

Hello guys,
I've this board for two years now, and from time to time I open my case to clean it, and yesterday I saw a swollen cap on top, near the atx power connector. I have some basic knowledge in electronics and I know that this is not good, although my board is running perfectly, I'm worried because I know that it will crash very soon. The ECS D6VAA http://www.ecsusa.com/products/d6vaa.html is a dual socket 370 board such as the VP6 that is covered in the site. Has anyone of you experienced this bad cap problem with this board? I want to do something like you describe for the VP6 on my D6VAA, could anyone give me some advice, like which caps should I change, and which are the good cap brands I should look for?

Thanks in advance,

Belial

[kc8adu]

time to change them NOW.
if you use high quality caps like panasonic,sanyo,nichicon,rubycon ect you will not have any more cap trouble for the rest of the boards usefull life.
]they MUST be low esr type!
post the brand of the bad caps in the sticky at the top of this forum.
pics are welcome too.

[Topcat]

I would recap it before it gets worse! If one of the failing caps shorts, it can sometimes cause irreversible damage to your board and even CPU's and RAM.

If you need a hand, let me know.

[kc8adu]

and it WILL get worse.