is it just me or are there a lot of mobos dying these days?

[OS]

I've come across a not insignificant number of posts that say "my mobo is dying after a couple months." It's not isolated to any brand, i've seen complaints about ECS, ASUS, Epox and others. What gives?

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: OS
I've come across a not insignificant number of posts that say "my mobo is dying after a couple months." It's not isolated to any brand, i've seen complaints about ECS, ASUS, Epox and others. What gives?

Sounds like it's Taiwan's fault...maybe we should invade? Regime change?

 

[mee987]

ive not noticed any increase in dead boards among the people i know. i had to rma my second mobo for my k6-2, and i had to get a bios replacement on a p3 board once, but thats about it for me. perhaps people are getting more careless with their components?

 

[CraigRT]

Haven't really noticed this. I have seen VERY few boards die.

I saw and old Aopen board die.
I saw an ECS board die of course.
and an Asus board (probably because I see so many)
and I've seen a DOA Gigabyte board.

 

[Pilsnerpete]

I've seen a dead Intel m/b. After I broke it over my truck bed cause it wouldn't go any faster.


Pete

 

[Peter]

The industry had a bad production run of capacitors from a major supplier some two or three years ago, these have been biting many people recently.

Then, power supplies. The gap between Watt ratings and actual output capabilities has been opening wide ever since the marketing people discovered the selling power of a high watt rating. PSUs that freak out and deliver high voltages or spikily regulated voltages have been killing lots of equipment recently.

>I saw an ECS board die of course.
>and an ASUS board (probably because I see so many)

Talk about double standards ... ECS has been outselling ASUS for quite a while now.

 

[MangoX]

It is likely true. My board before this one that I'm using now.. was a KT3 Ultra. The day I bought it, and brought it home, installed my componments and everything. First boot. Everything was fine. Went into the bios, and changed a few settings and at the time I didn't see my IDE drives detected. Thats when I noticed that I had forgetten to plug the power into the drives (dumb me). So I saved the settings, and immediately powered off the system right after saving. Then I had plugged the power into the system, powered on. No Go. Nothing was showing up on my screen, the power light on my monitor was blinking (samsung) as if there was no video signal coming in. I went ahead and cleared the cmos. After trying many different configs, swapping parts of my older and newer computers (video card, ram, botting with no hard drives) the system still refused to POST. Next day I went back to my retailer and decided to exchange the board for a AT7 Max, no questions asked good thing. This board rocks BTW.

Only caveat I have with this board is that with my new tbred "A" 1800+ the vcore on the board only allows as high as 1.75v even tho my previous palomino 1700+ allowed 1.85v.

 

[cbuchach]

That's funny you posted this. My Asus A7V133 which I had for almost two years died a few weeks ago. It had been a great board, but my system began having stability problems. Eventually the system refused to boot. I am currently running on a older A7V133 that I had lying around with a few bad traces. I never realized that motherboards could just die after years a stable operation for no apparent reason other than getting older.

 

[Peter]

As I said, there's been an unidentifed quality problem with a certain make of capacitors ... bad thing basically everyone has been using them. Boards in the age range of two to three or four years (not exactly know) are prone to failure. Look for large upright capacitors that look inflated (top surface not flat).

 

[Mem]

The industry had a bad production run of capacitors from a major supplier some two or three years ago, these have been biting many people recently

I think my friend got one those,it went faulty about 4 weeks ago after about 28 months of use,and yes it was a capacitor on his as well.