Hi all... I'm Sean... and I have a bad board.
that sounded like I was at some AA meeting or something.
anyway.. I have a Gigabyte GA-7VTXH board with some pretty swelled up caps. tops look to be splitting... anyway... I saw a gigabyte GA-7VTXE (?) board listed in the main site earlier. I was wondering if anyone has knowledge about this series of boards being \"notorious\" for this prob. and also a few yeas ago I had a biostar board and another board of unknown make do the same thing. A tech here in town told me it was because of line voltage dropping and the board trying to overcompensate for it by drawing more current ... therby causing the caps to pop. Sounded reasonable at the time. I then invested in a UPS thinking the battery would help stabilize the voltage and provide some extra spike protection. Well my happy lil GA-7 board one morning was belly up along with a dead Pwr supply. I replaced the supply. but still doa.. then I noticed the swelled caps. I replaced the board with another gigabyte board GA-7VA it seems to be serving me well. I wonder if I can expect it to fry on me... and if I can expect to be able to repair the older GA-7VTXH board so I could use it in a computer that has a really crappy ECS board. any help and info from you smart guys (and gals if you are here) would be appreciated. BTW this site and forum are really great and full of super info... THANKS!!
and thanks in advance for any help that can be steered my way
IctSean
that sounded like I was at some AA meeting or something.
anyway.. I have a Gigabyte GA-7VTXH board with some pretty swelled up caps. tops look to be splitting... anyway... I saw a gigabyte GA-7VTXE (?) board listed in the main site earlier. I was wondering if anyone has knowledge about this series of boards being \"notorious\" for this prob. and also a few yeas ago I had a biostar board and another board of unknown make do the same thing. A tech here in town told me it was because of line voltage dropping and the board trying to overcompensate for it by drawing more current ... therby causing the caps to pop. Sounded reasonable at the time. I then invested in a UPS thinking the battery would help stabilize the voltage and provide some extra spike protection. Well my happy lil GA-7 board one morning was belly up along with a dead Pwr supply. I replaced the supply. but still doa.. then I noticed the swelled caps. I replaced the board with another gigabyte board GA-7VA it seems to be serving me well. I wonder if I can expect it to fry on me... and if I can expect to be able to repair the older GA-7VTXH board so I could use it in a computer that has a really crappy ECS board. any help and info from you smart guys (and gals if you are here) would be appreciated. BTW this site and forum are really great and full of super info... THANKS!!
and thanks in advance for any help that can be steered my way
IctSean
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