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    Bad Caps on an Abit KG7 Mobo

    I have recently run accross a problem with a KG7 board. The computer crashed and upon further investigation I notice the bursting caps. Has anyone else run accross a problem with this board. It has caps made by Nichicon. All of the caps around the processor have burst or are bulging. After seeing this I checked another computer I have that is running a KT7A board. It has the same problem. I called Abit about it and they said they would fix the KT7A board but not the KG7 board. What is amazing is the KG7 board is worse than the KT7A board. Anyone have any suggestions on the approach I should take with Abit if any? Thanks for any advice in advance.
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    Re: Bad Caps on an Abit KG7 Mobo

    the kg7r is around 5 years old when you made this post so it would of been past its 1yr warranty. my kg7r is 8yr old but the caps are great. its one of those things

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      Re: Bad Caps on an Abit KG7 Mobo

      Originally posted by krazykev64
      the kg7r is around 5 years old when you made this post so it would of been past its 1yr warranty. my kg7r is 8yr old but the caps are great. its one of those things
      Somehow I think the OP has probably moved on by now...

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        Re: Bad Caps on an Abit KG7 Mobo

        I recapped about a dozen of these boards. All are still in service except one.

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          Re: Bad Caps on an Abit KG7 Mobo

          Nichicon HM and HN Series caps made from 2001 thru 2004 were defective.

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            Re: Bad Caps on an Abit KG7 Mobo

            It may be an old thread, but those HM are the gift that keeps on giving.
            As I write this, I have yet another KG7 on the bench. Just finished recapping... yep... all the HM popped.

            This board is one of my many KG7 installations from the early 00's.
            The client is fine with the performance, but it was time to rotate out both drives. I found the popped caps during the disk rotation.

            The PSU was replaced 12/2008, so the caps popped sometime in the last year.

            Unfortunately, the KG7 board always fails Memtest86+ testing, so I never know if the RAM is good, or actually failing. I use PRIME95 to wring it out, as this will stumble over intermittent RAM errors.

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              Re: Bad Caps on an Abit KG7 Mobo

              Originally posted by bgavin
              It may be an old thread, but those HM are the gift that keeps on giving.
              As I write this, I have yet another KG7 on the bench. Just finished recapping... yep... all the HM popped.

              This board is one of my many KG7 installations from the early 00's.
              The client is fine with the performance, but it was time to rotate out both drives. I found the popped caps during the disk rotation.

              The PSU was replaced 12/2008, so the caps popped sometime in the last year.

              Unfortunately, the KG7 board always fails Memtest86+ testing, so I never know if the RAM is good, or actually failing. I use PRIME95 to wring it out, as this will stumble over intermittent RAM errors.
              my KG7R mobo is knocking on for around 9 years old and is still on its original caps from when i brought it in 2001. it passes all tests with flying colours

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