Hi guys I bought this motherboard of a seller on ebay.es
He listed it as used and stated it is in good working condition
In fairness it does actually work (I only tried booting to BIOS with both AGP and PCIe graphics cards and yes it does)
However he used a stock photo of the board and the one I received is dirty and has at least five blown capacitors (see pics)
When I pointed this out his reply was
'The board works perfectly as you indicate, if 5 capacitors failed it would not work, so it is not necessary to replace any capacitor.
It may have caught some dust in storage and I apologize for that.
There is no other board like that with the cheapest price in all of Europe and working perfectly, so the purchase you have made is perfect and according to the indicated description.'
I could take this matter up with ebay but I have no idea if they would actually side with me or the seller, as yes it does appear to be working.
Probably it's just easier for me to change the capacitors, and I did want the board and they are not as rare as he makes out but they are fairly scarce.
Anyway seeing as it works with the capacitors in this condition, does it really matter too much what I stick in there as long as they are 105C capacitors of the same value (or a bit higher) than the original ones?
He listed it as used and stated it is in good working condition
In fairness it does actually work (I only tried booting to BIOS with both AGP and PCIe graphics cards and yes it does)
However he used a stock photo of the board and the one I received is dirty and has at least five blown capacitors (see pics)
When I pointed this out his reply was
'The board works perfectly as you indicate, if 5 capacitors failed it would not work, so it is not necessary to replace any capacitor.
It may have caught some dust in storage and I apologize for that.
There is no other board like that with the cheapest price in all of Europe and working perfectly, so the purchase you have made is perfect and according to the indicated description.'
I could take this matter up with ebay but I have no idea if they would actually side with me or the seller, as yes it does appear to be working.
Probably it's just easier for me to change the capacitors, and I did want the board and they are not as rare as he makes out but they are fairly scarce.
Anyway seeing as it works with the capacitors in this condition, does it really matter too much what I stick in there as long as they are 105C capacitors of the same value (or a bit higher) than the original ones?
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