Re: Aopen AK77 working but...

Hi, thanks for the responses.
Phenos: glad to hear the boards can be recapped successfully and that only the 6 need replacing. Sound like two on my board, still can't over the one cap that's only connected by one leg and yet the board works!

Big Pope: from my brief reading of the site, the consensus is that Samxon caps are just fine, that's more that good enough for me! I'll PM you and we can work out the details.
Many thanks, Seb...

Hi, I just bought an Aopen AK77 off Ebay for a good price. As advertised it's working (well I put Duron 600, RAM and GFX in it and posted on the table) but there are six capacitors looking very dodgy.
Most of the larger ones are "KZE" brand and they all look fine, however all six of the Lelon ones look bad, all have bulging tops, four with residue on top and the other two have blown the plugs out the bottom and residue over the motherboard! The best bit is one of them only has one leg soldered to the board, the other is bent under the cap!!! How can it have failed when not electrically...