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The capacitors around my AGP slot look fried. They are crusty on the top. I did experiment with a bit of minor overclocking but don't know if that was the cause.
Anyway, I'm buying a new motherboard, but I want to know what the deal is with this one. Its an epox 8k7a and works fine except for when I play games (I'm hoping its not my new Geforce ti4400 that is fried, the board looks fine)
The exact capacitors that are crusty are EC25, ECA4, EC34, EC50, and EC38.
It's probably the VIA vs Nvidia chipset issue and no fault of either the board OR the card per se. I suspect if it was damaged you would be having major issues all the time, not just in games.
An ATI is probably a better video card choice for any chipset but Intel or Nforce boards.
Jimi_l
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thanks.. Ok, this is what I just bought
http://web.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8RDAplus&lang=1EPOX 8RDA3+ Retail.. and my video is a Gainward GeForce4 TI4400 128MB
Can I expect flawless performance from this combo? And no crustification of capacitors? :O
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With a VIA board there maybe a problem between the chipset and the driver of the graphic card. Installing the newest VIA 4in1 driver normally helps with that.
Another cause maybe a too high CAS setting of the memory or other graphic settings. I had it on an older computer. In normal office use the system worked fine but as soon as I played any 3D game or started a graphic benchmark the system froze within 1 to 5 minutes.
I changed the CAS settings to the lowest setting, the wait state to slow, graphics aperture size to 8MB and video memory cache mode from USWC to UC and everything worked fine.
As it's only a second system used to play netwark games with friends I haven't really checked something inbetween but I hope that helps!
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About the capacitors I think your card wouldn't even work if it's not connected correctly so better leave them alone.
What caused the crust I have no idea. It maybe dirt, it's just a case of low quality material or some water may have condensated in case you got it from a cold surrounding into a warm room!
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Get them replaced FAST!!! If the capacitors blow the mobo might die! I would go to radio shack and get new capacitors. Here's a link to what i'm talking about.
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Feb/bch20030207018535.htm
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I had the same proulblem on one of my ECS K7S5A mobos. I got the capacitors replaced in time though.
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Faulty caps have nothing to do with overclocking. It just has to do with mobo manufacters useing cpeap caps.
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