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Epox 8k7a dead?

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jankm

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I have an Epox 8k7a with a 1.2GHz Athlon, 512 PC2100 RAM, AIW Radeon 8500DV, 30gig and 60gig HDs.

Last week I hit the power button and the power light came on and the fans but nothing happened, no POST. I opened up the case and pulled out all the cards and stuck them back in and it booted fine. Earlier this week the same thing happened but I powered it up again and it worked. Today I have tried everything and can't get it to POST. I pulled out all the parts and plugged in only the necessary items but nothing happens. I tried to use the Jumper to clear the BIOS, when I do that, I get no power, no fans or anything. I haven't seen this type of thing before. Was my motherboard dying a slow death? Can I just get a new BIOS chip?

I have new parts coming in this week, EPOX nForce2 mb with 2500+ CPU. I'm going to try the processor in that because I'm almost sure its either the processor or motherboard.
 
When one of my 8k7a's crapped, the only thing that came on was the little green LED next to the ram.
 
My 8K7A has killed 2 power supplies so far ... has something to do with how it doesn't use one rail but doubles up on another ... :|

I can't WAIT to get a new mobo ...
 
My 8K7A with similar specs just gave up the ghost as well. My error was the sporadic "Hardware Failure, Contact System Vendor, System Halted" blue screen of death paired with a combination of black screens and assorted boot codes.

I originally thought it was the RAM or video or the Dialogic card but after removing and replacing everything with new parts it looks like it is the Epox board.

With regards to the blown caps, how can you tell if one / many are blown? Will they leak or just bubble up on the top with a brown color in the slot etched on top of the cap?

I have 2 caps showing that fine trait!

New MB gets here today so I can at least get my development machine back up and running.
 
You are really lucky... when my 8K7A+ failed, it wasn't quite evident that it was the mobo. After about a month, Windows started crashing repeatedly, requiring re-installs. Eventually, I took the board back to the dealer, and found the mobo defective. Replaced with a new one and has been running fine for the last year!
 
There was an article in IEEE Spectrum a few months back how leaky capacitors made it to mainstream mobo manufacturers and eventually resulted in pretty high failures. The 8K7A(+) was one of the affected boards. I experienced this personally...not a fun thing.
 
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