Brand new capacitors from RMA'd mobo may be leaking.

bupkus

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Nov 25, 2000
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I haven't even installed this replacement motherboard and the new caps seem to be seeping.
Story:
I RMA'd an epox 8rda+ mainboard and just got it back. Epox is doing the capacitor replacement due to some bad caps early 2003 in this model. I don't know if this should be a concern or not. Could these caps with the "white chaulky" stuff on their tops be bad or just had some of the chemical squeezed out because they were over-filled during manufacturing?

 

Jeff7

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Jan 4, 2001
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I haven't seen bad caps with white chalky stuff. It's usually been a brownish goo that I've seen in leaky caps.
Any chance of pics?