And Dell managed to get on my nerves today...

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Originally Posted by T.G

IIRC, it's like 50 or so caps that ought to be changed out, that was kind of a SWAG on the pricing based on going to an electronics store and buying them OTC. Basically every cap from a certain manufacturer needs to be swapped out. Sure, some of them haven't failed yet, and they might or might not ever fail, but if you're going to go through the work of replacing them, you might as well replace all of them when you have the board out.


I think there are some kits on fleabay that list all the caps needed.

Gotta agree, before I swap out 50 caps (I am an electronics type) on a PC MOBO, I'm dropping $270 for a new box. My time is worth more than what it would take to swap out the caps. Especially on a MOBO that is a few years old already. And your correct, once you replace the obvious one, you have to replace the rest. There is no way of know if they were damaged, going to fail soon as they are crap as well, etc.