Oh great, opened up my dad's computer to figure out why the USB ports weren't working.......

[Shawn]

only to find almost all the capacitors on the board had burst open. I was just reading about someone w/ this problem a few days ago. The USB problem was unrelated btw, I had the connector on wrong. But wtf?!?! How long can I expect the board to work like this?

 

[Platypus]

If you value any hardware in that box I'd disconnect it from that motherboard.. who knows what's been damaged.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Um, don't worry about it and buy a new one?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Um, don't worry about it and buy a new one?

Ummm, money?!?!

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Um, don't worry about it and buy a new one?

Ummm, money?!?!

You've got money to supercharge your miata, but not to buy a $50 mobo?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you value any hardware in that box I'd disconnect it from that motherboard.. who knows what's been damaged.

Can I RMA this thing? Got it from newegg. I think it's over a year old though. It was one of the first nforce mobos. Even if it's within warentee period what do I tell them? The mobo still "works" fine. No stability issues or anything like that.

 

[jacob0401]

What motherboard? Just curious...

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you value any hardware in that box I'd disconnect it from that motherboard.. who knows what's been damaged.

Can I RMA this thing? Got it from newegg. I think it's over a year old though. It was one of the first nforce mobos. Even if it's within warentee period what do I tell them? The mobo still "works" fine. No stability issues or anything like that.

Considering you are the one that destroyed it, it's really a question of ethics, however I think you'll probably be able to RMA it if it's from a good company.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Um, don't worry about it and buy a new one?

Ummm, money?!?!

You've got money to supercharge your miata, but not to buy a $50 mobo?

First of all, it took me over a year to save up that amount of money. Second of all this is my dad's comptuer, not mine. I am not going to spend my own money on one.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Um, don't worry about it and buy a new one?

Ummm, money?!?!

You've got money to supercharge your miata, but not to buy a $50 mobo?

First of all, it took me over a year to save up that amount of money. Second of all this is my dad's comptuer, not mine. I am not going to spend my own money on one.

But, I thought you said you broke it... maybe I misread something.

NM, it's late and I understand what you were saying in the OP now.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you value any hardware in that box I'd disconnect it from that motherboard.. who knows what's been damaged.

Can I RMA this thing? Got it from newegg. I think it's over a year old though. It was one of the first nforce mobos. Even if it's within warentee period what do I tell them? The mobo still "works" fine. No stability issues or anything like that.

Considering you are the one that destroyed it, it's really a question of ethics, however I think you'll probably be able to RMA it if it's from a good company.

How do you know that he destroyed it? Plugging the USB connector in wrong wouldn't kill it, the USB just wouldn't work.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you value any hardware in that box I'd disconnect it from that motherboard.. who knows what's been damaged.

Can I RMA this thing? Got it from newegg. I think it's over a year old though. It was one of the first nforce mobos. Even if it's within warentee period what do I tell them? The mobo still "works" fine. No stability issues or anything like that.

Considering you are the one that destroyed it, it's really a question of ethics, however I think you'll probably be able to RMA it if it's from a good company.

How did I distroy it??? This was a manufacturing flaw.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: X-Man

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you value any hardware in that box I'd disconnect it from that motherboard.. who knows what's been damaged.

Can I RMA this thing? Got it from newegg. I think it's over a year old though. It was one of the first nforce mobos. Even if it's within warentee period what do I tell them? The mobo still "works" fine. No stability issues or anything like that.

Considering you are the one that destroyed it, it's really a question of ethics, however I think you'll probably be able to RMA it if it's from a good company.

How do you know that he destroyed it? Plugging the USB connector in wrong wouldn't kill it, the USB just wouldn't work.

I don't know, from experience anytime capacitors are melted or destroyed it's probably running a decent rist of getting worse. I'd never run a board that was burned or damaged, dunno about you

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: iloveme2
First of all, it took me over a year to save up that amount of money. Second of all this is my dad's comptuer, not mine. I am not going to spend my own money on one.

Tell him he needs to replace his mobo and that you need $50 to do it. Is he really on that tight of a budget that he can't spare $50 to maintain his computer?

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you value any hardware in that box I'd disconnect it from that motherboard.. who knows what's been damaged.

Can I RMA this thing? Got it from newegg. I think it's over a year old though. It was one of the first nforce mobos. Even if it's within warentee period what do I tell them? The mobo still "works" fine. No stability issues or anything like that.

Considering you are the one that destroyed it, it's really a question of ethics, however I think you'll probably be able to RMA it if it's from a good company.

How did I distroy it??? This was a manufacturing flaw.

The USB problem was unrelated btw, I had the connector on wrong.

That's why.

 

[nightowl]

He did not destroy the board. It was the manufacturer that used defective caps on the board that caused them to go bad. I have 2 boards that had caps that went bad and I had to replace them. What happened was that companies in Asia stole the formula for the fluid in the caps but the formula was flawed and now there are tons of boards that have caps that are failing.

 

[spanky]

would it be possible that having the usb connector on wrong caused the caps to bust open? i've heard of mobo's having certain caps bust open (i have had caps burst on my epox 8k7a... i replaced them)... but all of them?

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you value any hardware in that box I'd disconnect it from that motherboard.. who knows what's been damaged.

Can I RMA this thing? Got it from newegg. I think it's over a year old though. It was one of the first nforce mobos. Even if it's within warentee period what do I tell them? The mobo still "works" fine. No stability issues or anything like that.

Considering you are the one that destroyed it, it's really a question of ethics, however I think you'll probably be able to RMA it if it's from a good company.

How did I distroy it??? This was a manufacturing flaw.

The USB problem was unrelated btw, I had the connector on wrong.

That's why.

BS! I call shenanigans - I've plugged USB connectors onto the motherboard wrong before. It doesn't hurt anything - the power is going from the board the wire, not the vice versa. No way he killed it doing that.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: nightowl
He did not destroy the board. It was the manufacturer that used defective caps on the board that caused them to go bad. I have 2 boards that had caps that went bad and I had to replace them. What happened was that companies in Asia stole the formula for the fluid in the caps but the formula was flawed and now there are tons of boards that have caps that are failing.

I remember reading about this quite some time ago. Wasn't it limited to a certain small group of manufacturers? For some reason I think I remember being afraid that my NF7-S might blow up on me.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: nightowl
He did not destroy the board. It was the manufacturer that used defective caps on the board that caused them to go bad. I have 2 boards that had caps that went bad and I had to replace them. What happened was that companies in Asia stole the formula for the fluid in the caps but the formula was flawed and now there are tons of boards that have caps that are failing.

winner

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle

Originally posted by: iloveme2
First of all, it took me over a year to save up that amount of money. Second of all this is my dad's comptuer, not mine. I am not going to spend my own money on one.

Tell him he needs to replace his mobo and that you need $50 to do it. Is he really on that tight of a budget that he can't spare $50 to maintain his computer?

Well he won't be too happy about it. Considering he just blew $300 on a new digital camera. That is why I needed to get the USB ports working.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

That's why.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html

 

[spanky]

if u rma the board, i hope they dont make u ship it to taiwan if that is the case... u might as well get a new board. it might cost a tad more, but u'll get it a lot faster.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: iloveme2
Well he won't be too happy about it. Considering he just blew $300 on a new digital camera. That is why I needed to get the USB ports working.

Well could RMA because it's likely that the cause of the problem is that the manufacturer used cheap-ass caps, but that will likely be a pain in the butt. The other option is that you buy some good caps, cut the old ones and install the new ones yourself if you're handy with a soldering iron.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Shawn]

I'm sure I could put new ones on but i'm afraid if I do screw it up I'm out a board because they wouldn't let me rma it after that.