Re: Asus A8N-E with possible bad caps?

Update: The board was significantly better after replacing the 820uF KZGs, but still not 100% stable. So a week ago I shotgunned it, replacing nearly all of the remaining caps (including everything around the VRM). Looks like it is really fixed now.

Re: Asus A8N-E with possible bad caps?



Well... crap. Hopefully it'll at least be stable enough for him to use over the next week (I will be out of town on business)....

Re: Asus A8N-E with possible bad caps?

Can't say I've ever personally experienced the "sudden death" issue with Asus boards.

I will say that the A8V-VM was a clunker though -- the PCIe slot never worked quite right on mine. Running Linux on it resulted in random video lockups (X Windows would just wedge itself once or twice a day for no reason); the same video cards worked perfectly fine on other systems. My A8V-VM is still sitting in my spares pile; I figure it still ought to be useful as a test box or server, where the onboard video would be good enough....

Re: Asus A8N-E with possible bad caps?

My son's computer (which also uses an A8N-E motherboard) has been acting really flaky lately; he came home from college for the weekend so I could take a look at it. I opened it up yesterday and discovered several bulging 6.3V 820uF KZG caps. I replaced all of the 6.3V 820uF caps (not just the bulging ones).

I did not have any 820uF on hand, so I used some 1000uF from United Chemi-Con. They're a little taller than the KZGs, but I checked for clearance with the video card before proceeding (one of the caps was right next to the...