Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro G

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I recently replaced a customer's motherboard that had (only one) blown capacitor. The motherboard was a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro-G. It seems however that her power supply (Powmax ~ surprise surprise) caught on fire and that may have done it in. Anyway I'm posting here because not only do I have a couple of these boards myself, but also I'm responsible for a whole bunch of other computers with this board. There seems to be no other capacitor problems on any of the boards I have inspected so far. (I went through 13 so far. All boards were manufactured in 2004.)

Does anyone have a clue if these mobos are affected by the bad capacitor manufacture? Thanks in advance.

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Re: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro G

I should be sleeping but...
Here are more details about the capacitors in question..
Unfortunately I don't have time soon to take any of these things apart as they are servers and the like.

K Face Marking / Dark Sea Green + Golden Lettering
3X By VRM
K Face Marking / Navy + Bright Gold Lettering
5X By ZIF Socket
X Face Marking / Black + White Lettering
Dispersed ~ Northbridge / AGP / Memory / ATX PSU Socket.

[bushytails]

Re: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro G

It might help more if you told us WHAT the lattering was, not just that it existed.

--Randy

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Re: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro G

Haha Sorry. Just in a rush to get out on my long awaited vacation. I'll be sure to have pictures up soon. It's worth a thousand words.

[Chris1992]

Re: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro G

From top, sounds like sanyo, rubycon MBZ, nichicon to me and those are all good brands. I'd assume the psu killed the caps. How old is this board?

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Re: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro G

Thanks for the reply. That sounds reassuring. The board was 1.5 years old at the most. I'm pretty sure the PSU killed it.