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Had my first mobo with blown caps....MSI

J

Jarhead

Senior member
it had been locking up alot....

http://www.molalla.net/~leeper/blowc_1.jpg http://www.molalla.net/~leeper/blowc_2.jpg http://www.molalla.net/~leeper/blowc_3.jpg

This is a MSI KT133A board I got about 1.5 years ago. It started locking at about six months,
and got bad around nine months, and got another month out of it when I switched from a
standard Antec 300W PSU to a ANTEC True Power. Interesting to me, is it actually "fixed"
the issue for a month. I had ended up replacing the motherboard when it started locking up
again.

DigiKey, PW HE FC series caps are on order...

 
i had an old kt133 msi board that i also had to RMA because of bulging and leaking caps (just like you it started to become very unstable)
 
Welcome to the club everyone! 🙂

I've had to RMA 5 of those MSI boards over the last 2 years or so.

Dig those out of your scrap piles and contact MSI.
Due to the faulty caps they may still be honoring the warranty.
At least they were about six months ago.
 
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