has anyone had issues with the caps on evga nforce4 mobos blowing?

[faxon]

2 of the capacitors on my motherboard just blew up while i was out. both were right by the #1 PCI Express slot on the board. they were sacon caps, which according to a forum post i found on google at www.badcaps.net, have a habit of doing this :|. the board is a 939 socket board, so unless i can get them to fix it im going to have a hard time finding a reasonably priced replacement. sucks a bunch because i dont have the money for a new system right now =/

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: faxon
2 of the capacitors on my motherboard just blew up while i was out. both were right by the #1 PCI Express slot on the board. they were sacon caps, which according to a forum post i found on google at www.badcaps.net, have a habit of doing this :|. the board is a 939 socket board, so unless i can get them to fix it im going to have a hard time finding a reasonably priced replacement. sucks a bunch because i dont have the money for a new system right now =/

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wtb new gaming rig

Geeks.com has quite a few Foxconn 939 NF4 mobos under $40, no idea if the boards are any good though.

 

[WT]

I think I have the exact same board in one of my rigs. Its listed as an eVGA NF41 board IIRC. I'm actually selling it to a guy this weekend, but its bulletproof, and I did my research on it and bought RAM that allows me to do 1T timings (biggest issue with this board was memory timings and the eVGA splash screen, both rectified with a later BIOS update). No bad caps (swelling or otherwise) and I'm using an Enermax 485w Noisetaker to power it.

The board should be covered under warranty - its an AX designation.

 

[faxon]

good to know it,s under warranty, now if only i could get the evga site to let me register it. site kept erroring out on the comp i was on. i will try again later on a buddies comp later.

 

[WT]

FYI: eVGA has changed their warranty policy in the last year, in that you MUST register a new prodct within 30 days of buying it to get the full lifetime warranty. This differs from previous years in that all you had to do was register it, period, at some point. I registered my board within two months of buying it but that did not fall under the new time restrained recent policy.

It will be interesting to see what they can do for you, assuming they may not have any more 939 boards to replace yours with (doubtful, but possible).

 

[faxon]

Originally posted by: WT
FYI: eVGA has changed their warranty policy in the last year, in that you MUST register a new prodct within 30 days of buying it to get the full lifetime warranty. This differs from previous years in that all you had to do was register it, period, at some point. I registered my board within two months of buying it but that did not fall under the new time restrained recent policy.

It will be interesting to see what they can do for you, assuming they may not have any more 939 boards to replace yours with (doubtful, but possible).

yea i ran into their whole revamp thing right around the time i build my system actually. they were doing a major overhaul of their RMA system at the time and my 7900GT KO Superclocked came back worse than when i RMAed it, and because of the way the system worked before they redid it i couldnt send it back for another RMA because there wasnt a way to do that. however, i just used their online registration and it seems to have worked. i just got the email confirming my registration and i applied for an RMA, which i will get a response to in 1-3 business days. thanks in advance though for the link to geeks.com, i somehow completely forgot about them. if they cant RMA my board i will look into picking up one of the boards they have there just for now so i can use this system for some time to come. im currently on my current backup system, which is basically a souped up emachine i inherited from a friend when he replaced his old comp earlier this year. thing still works okay, but it only has a 2800+ Sempron, 1GB of ram, and a 9800PRO 128. i had to put my x-fi in it just to give it sound since the onboard died ages ago and he took his replacement card out lol. in short, i cant really do ANY gaming on it, other than maybe starcraft, tribes, and EQ2 (which runs like shit).

 

[wwswimming]

if they're small electrolytic cap's & you have the skill with a soldering
iron it's not too hard to fix. there's another thread with the company
name "alltronics" that lists a bunch of places to buy caps. just need
a Cap. & voltage rating, plus to watch polarity (+ and -) when replacing
them.

 

[faxon]

yea EVGA accepted my RMA request. i just have to enter a credit card on my end and they will ship me a new board and a prepaid shipping sticker, everything paid for by them. i just have to send the bad board back to them once i get the replacement and i wont have to spend a dime