Re: Catastrophic Failure on EPOX 9NPA Ultra

Thankfully no further damage to components. Got the MSI board up and running w/ no problems. Sending EPoX back for replacement tomorrow.

Re: Catastrophic Failure on EPOX 9NPA Ultra - Update

EPoX has now agreed to take the board back and replace... Already ordered MSI board... Kind of down on EPoX given the earlier capacitor problem and now this flameout....

Recently installed EPOX 9NPA Ultra NForce 4 board w/ AMD 4400+ X2 CPU and 2 Gb Dual channel DDR400 RAM. Set this system up for video processing. At about 3:00 AM Saturday morning, house smoke alarm goes off. EPOX board is frying away...

Attached pictures show front and back of board, and blown up capacitor and some other component. This seems extreme for a capacitor only problem; I had an EPoX 8KHA board that had the classic leaking capacitor problem, but it certainly didn't fail like this one did; the 8KHA lasted 5 years before it went belly up...

Any ideas? EPoX...