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I can personally confirm this, there are a couple of caps in my
Abit motherboard that look bubbled-up on top. But the MB is
still working.

I know I'll have to replace them eventually, but am putting it
away temporarily. I hope they don't leak before I do it :-)
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"Stromm Sarnac" <stromm@mail.com> wrote in message news:MPG.185aa7a21009e9c59896ea@news.cis.dfn.de...
> In article <3df01820$0$12758$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, rossv1
> @au.com.optushome says...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Stromm Sarnac wrote:
> >
> > >   Yep, my father sent 3 motherboards (computers) to a guy that replaces
> > > the bad caps for about $50/per MB.  One was Abit's and the other was
> > > Intel's.
> >
> > How did you know the caps were bad, and what Abit motherboard was it?
> >
> > (Since my Abit died mysteriously for no reason, and I was wondering why).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ross..
> >
> >
>   Abit VP6 (don't know the rev), I'm not sure what the Intel MB model
> is.  Supposedly the guy that does the repairs told him that many of
> Abits, Asus, MSI, Intel, Compaq, IBM, and other MBs have the bad caps
> but they won't replaced them till failure occurs.
>
>   He found the info about the caps while browsing the web.  This was
> about 5 months ago now.  There was a list of manufacturers that
> purchased caps during the timeframe.  I think there was also a part
> number on them.  Don't quote me on that though.
>
>   One thing I do remember is that the excessive h2o in the caps causes
> them to bubble-up on top.  He looked at his MBs and found a few that
> were not flat, but not exremely domed either.