A destroyed PC Mainboard

[hraqhraq]

How do you know a capacitor is good by just looking at it. You have to test it to make sure it is OK! even if it is not bulging or leaking

[djboby72]

@hraqhraq

You don't know if is good but if it looks like in my video, you can be shure that is bad. You dont have to test it if it looks so bulging.

[Knaeckebrotsaege]

Looks like a Shuttle motherboard.

maybe ECS/Elitegroup, but it doesn't look like one.

and those GSC capacitors are complete junk. they will go bad. the question is not *if*, but *when*.

GSC = Sacon = Evercon = Asiacon. All the same manufacturer. they switch names every now and then to keep on selling their crap

[striekert]

btw, there was this firma that made cheap capacitors and did leak over the years

[striekert]

had that same problem, i did replace the capacitors with other one's from a old mobo. its stil run

[WizzoPro9476]

Yea!  That sucker's gone!

[target007]

and i am ugly............?

[Tylenole]

Its a shitty old board lol wo cares

[PhuckHue2]

power surge

[4feitDgam3]

It can be fixed

[lollosmacintosh]

per dirti sulla sceda c'era scritto "made in china"...... per dirti che la roba cinese dura da natale a santo stefano!!!

[YAAUFA]

The heat from the heatsink destroyed those capacitors. There was not enough cool air flow to stop that from happening. In all other cases replacing the capacitors with a higher voltage only, and higher heat resistance like 100 over 80.

[elegadom2]

0:27 Forever alone

[bongeholeboy]

0:28 'made is china'  theirs ur problem!!

[tribalmasters]

I have seen many motherboards like this, mostly machines including self builds equipped with AMD Athlon XP chips and made around 2000-2004. Also power supplies with them - yuck!! I wonder if some caps can die with no signs of leakage or bulging?

[nessnes64]

is that stuff on the capacitors bad? i mean toxic?

because i was scraping this shit off an old pc with a sharp knife

[KieranY5]

hmm, I think that might be bad.

[ReCkLeSsErr0r]

Well, resoldering capacitors would work, but even that board is almost toast, just look how old it is.

[arcadefirerocks]

Wow. I recently had to overhaul my computer be cause of three blown capacitors next to the CPU socket. It cost me $90

[whiskeyify]

as to those 2 that look good...most likey they are but you never know. Sometimes if you remove them you'll see some black sticky stuff on the underside of the cap.

that means it's bad.

[nextrider123]

MADE IN CHINA

[valiza123]

@nextrider123 Most are made in china... it's the low quality dielectric. I've seen a Gigabyte MB destroyed like this, it's not only with Dell, it's any brand buying cheap capacitors. 

[TheVnicer]

o shit that's really not good......

[arcadefirerocks]

looks like you are a victim of the Capacitor Plague

[ComputerExpert11]

It looks like a shit board any way

[ultragaming1993]

The old caps did this always after a few years use, or extreme heat, Now we have solid caps They will never go so bad as that >.<

[PivotMasterD1]

What brand are those caps?

[AugustoTobias]

Let me guess.....it was a dell? I say that because alot of dell computers from 2005 to 2008 had motherboards with bad capacitors.

[djboby72]

@AugustoTobias

no, is not a dell

a try to remember what was it but...

sorry

[skinnyt007]

change the caps

[Sekcja0serowa]

replace capabitors and go !!! :)

[Heihachi73]

Got one 'donated' the other day in a similar condition, a Soltek SL-75KAV board (AMD Socket 462) from Dec 2001. All of the large GSC 2200uF/6.3v caps bar one were blown outwards just like on this video. I think I was more shocked with the fact it had an ISA slot at the bottom of a post-2000 board!

[Ogameplayer18]

oO To high voltage xD

[alphaman1101]

hahaha all those are dead and the lonely souls sits by its self. funy

[akabalaka]

poor condensators...  rest in PIECES

[sparky1442]

i had something like that happened to an old Aopen board i used to have but every capacitor on the board was bad and leaking

[PhilipHo92]

wow, how could allmost all the capacitors go off!??

[BarneySaysHi]

In this case, all the capacitors that went bad are from the same brand. Those have a electrolyte failure, resulting in the caps working for some time, then pressure starts to build up. When the pressure is too high, the caps fail and your PC will start to do crazy stuff.

Blame the industry.

[PhilipHo92]

okay, thanks mate^^

[wcocowcocow]

heat from the cpu i think

[SvenneTheBlockhead]

holy fuck ._.

[thiagotecnico]

that's why they said WINDOWS CRASHES ALL DAY :-/

[eifeijf]

oh yea, thats realy bad!

[bluebutdude1]

what happend?!??! hahahha

[justin3zelda]

Caps go mainly on socket 462 boards due to heat related issues, especially if the capacitors are right next to the heat sink! The hotter the capacitors get, the higher the failure rate. I very often replace bad caps on motherboards to get more life out of them. Now when I get a dead motherboard I remove all the good caps from them and use them for other motherboards. I replaced the caps on my parent's HP and its been good for over a year!

[coolboy5537]

lol looks like a small city

[bilzoo2000]

damn, your mb is fucked, and you cant even harvest those caps.

[rijo14]

Q.E.P.D.

[myx1997]

YOU CAN SEE LEAKS ON THE CAPACITORS!!!

[Wilyes]

@myx1997 Thank you captain obvious!

[SNACTT]

i've much old MBs and all electrolitics capacitors are fucked off... with modern solid capacitors widely used by ASUS the capacitors problems are reduced to zero...

[jukingeo]

That is a Dell motherboard, isn't it? Had the SAME problem with 3 Optiplex computers at work.

[scottyfixit]

Replace them for $5 and put that Motherboard back into business. I bet that computer froze a lot before the motherboard was removed.

[Nightbird2k6]

Yes, I had the same problem a year ago.

Just replaced the capacitors with new (and better) ones and it's still running yet.

[scottyfixit]

Replace them for $5 and put that Motherboard back into business. I bet that computer froze a lot before the motherboard was removed.

[gigabajty]

wszystkie kondziory są zjebane....

[slaterking1000]

THat why Motherboards use solid state capacitors.

They break mainly in the CPU area that's why most newer boards have them in the CPU area.