March 6, 201016 yr Author hrrrm problem identified, bloody hard to see as when looking at the caps very early on in this I was looking leaking/bulged tops/sides. This whole cap is tiny and has "bulged" upwards away from the board, it sit right next to the SIL controller......
March 6, 201016 yr Geez, if that Capacitor is going, who knows when the next one will go, and the fun and games you'll have after that! It's not worth playing around with that mobo any further, you safest best is to change the mobo a.s.a.p. The newer Gigabyte boards have long-life Capacitors (specific models), which have been quoted to last about 50,000 hours of life, so in anyone's terms, that practically longer than what you'd expect a mobo to live for. I bought one like this and it hasn't given be any troubles. Actually, every Gigabyte mobo that I've own has been great, giving virtually little to no problems. I'm not a fan of Asus and don't really recommend them, as I've had two in the past and both gave me ongoing troubles from the get go. But again, each to their own and I'm sure others would disagree with my judgment on Asus. Hope you change that mobo soon and to hear your unRAID is back in business. Cheers!
March 7, 201016 yr Author Thanks SMNAS, I've repaired the board for now to bring my NAS online. I noticed another cap near the northbridge bulging in the same way, so will start my plan to replace the board with something else....Like i say i have another Socket 939 board here but it only has 4 onboard sata ports so i'm going to go pci-e controller shopping to bring it up to at least 8 (probably use 2 pci-e 2 port adapters) Thanks everybody for you help. SMNAS: just looking at my mobo usage ALL my boards are Giga-byte except the one in my NAS currently (MSI) I happen to agree with you I in seem to prefer the GB stuff over ASUS, but in the end will go with what offers me the best product of the $$$$$ Cheers, Synth
March 7, 201016 yr hrrrm problem identified, bloody hard to see as when looking at the caps very early on in this I was looking leaking/bulged tops/sides. This whole cap is tiny and has "bulged" upwards away from the board, it sit right next to the SIL controller...... Yeah, I've found that more than 9 out of 10 times sudden failures of a previously working system are related to capacitor plague of the motherboard, power supply or both. Sometimes a new power supply will temporary mask a failing motherboard, even if the old power supply was perfectly functional -- so part swapping isn't really a good replacement for thorough inspection. Sorry for not pointing out to look for bottom bulges in my first reply, probably would have saved you some time. Bottom bulges are difficult to spot when first trying to identify them, but once you know what to look for they are hard to miss -- you pretty much look for caps that are slightly pushed up off the board relative to the others. I've had cap related failures of MSI, GB, ASUS, Epox, Intel, Foxcon -- the list goes on. MSI, however, appeared to have taken longer to purge the bad caps from production than some of the others.
March 7, 201016 yr Author no problem Brainbone, i've seen leaky/bulged caps many times on motherboards aswell I have to say never seen to "bulge" at the bottom, i'd say thats not normal as it used to be the CPU caps that died and they were much bigger the the tiny one that bottom bulged for me.... again thats to you all its up and running for now an I'm looking at replacement. Cheers Synth
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