Leaking Capacitors.......

plasmahal · 10 Jun 2007 at 07:51

After my recent new build, I'm now shuffling hardware around the house. My son got my last PC build and my daughter is getting his old PC.

Yesterday i removed the trusty 9800pro for a clean up and found 5 capacitors on the Mobo (soltek FRNSL2) had bulged at the top and leaked brown gunge. I know that the tops of these older style chemical capacitors are pre weakened to allow for this. I've never seen it before........

Looks like it's time for the bin for this soltek board.

I've ordered a cheap asrock board so the rest of the hardware doesn't get wasted.

Anyone else ever had this problem on a Mobo ?

Tripnologist · 10 Jun 2007 at 11:55

Yup. I used to work as a pc tech and saw it all the time.
I always told the customers about it and recommended a new motherboard. It'll keep working for a bit but there's no telling how long.

IAmATeaf · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:01

You could just replace then, get the value of the side, desolder, resolder, job done.

Euphoria · 11 Jun 2007 at 11:51

there was a huge issue a while back with the dell gx270s. Dell replaced these no problem and i think at work we must have replaced over 1000 of these. I would seek out an RMA if its still under warranty, failing that i would just replace the board because motherboards now are as cheap as chips

plasmahal · 11 Jun 2007 at 20:14

It's about 2-3 yrs old now so not in warranty..........

As stated above, I've ordered a new asrock socket A mobo to replace.

I might however source some replacement capacitors and replace them, I've done stuff like that before, just need to get the same spec capacitors.