My Capacitors are Exploding

[MIK3]

The heading says it all...three of my major capacitors have exploded. Friggin A, its pissin me off too. I'm guessing one of them was for my screen, because now my screen flickers at ever mouse click, movement, and stroke of a key. Can anyone help me as to why this is happeneing, and how I can get it fixed!! Eviltechie refered me to just return my mobo...which I am highly considering. He gave me an article on how bad capacitors were assembled on recent mobos. There is still liquid in them tho, and I reclosed them...temporarily. I think it is due to the heat. My case fan puts out heat from the pc just fine. Accept it puts it out so good, some comes back in. That is due to my computer desk. It gives the heat about 2 inches to escape...so for now, I have moved my computer to an open place. If this is the reason, I'll contact MSI, that is my mobo. Yeah, and then my luck got even better as I was looking at the capacitors, I turned on the computer to see if any liquid leaks, and it doesnt. And the heatsink fan was rotating, and my finger hit it. So one of the blades break, but the fan is still fine and rotates at normal rpm's....so there's my dilema guys where and how can I fix the capacitors? New Mobo? Cuz I love this MSI and kinda dont want to, but if it prevents further damage, why not. Thx guys for all the help!

apparently a scientist stole an electrolyte formula from his employer in Japan and left the company. Shortly afterwards, this scientist took up with a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer and used the formula there, then went on to sell the formula to other firms. The problem was, the formula was wrong.

atleast it isnt this bad yet


its more like this right?

tons of mobo's had that prob man... your not alone!!

[MIK3]

Yes, that is what my capacitors look like, the bottem picture. Accept only three are out, and they don't look that bad (yet). Is it the mear fact that the mobo is defective, or could it also possibly be that my heat has no wear to go, and builds up pressure in the capacitors some how?

its not heat

read the quote that i put in

its the formulae that is wrong
cheap capacitors
used to lower the price of mobos

Yeah that junk formula was apart of a big conspiracy in asia haha some dood defected and took it with him but it was not complete, sold the formula and now the world has millions of leaking caps!

[MIK3]

Yeah..accept my scenario is not leak, its snap, crackle and POP! heh. I have the capacitor liquid on my case to prove it, heh

leak as in crack and pop!

like the pictures
the cross cracks open and pops up

like a science fiction desert monster opening its mouth to swallow some fingers...

umm, that is an interesting analogy you have there

unlucky m8

Lemme guess, ya already voided the warranty before? "tucking" the guts back in won't fix anything with a leaky cap, in fact you could cause the internals the short. Do a back-up "NOW" and get the board replaced asap. Looks like the one fried some stuff nearby or at least heated it up. As an electronics tech I'ld say it's on countdown to meltdown. And with those caps (capacitors) fried if they are the ones smoothing the voltage to the processor or other componenets, it may be getting uneeded spikes (that's what some of them are there for, it depends on which ones fried). At any rate it's not good on anything to operate like that.

By the way the reason caps have the cross hatches acrossed the top like that is so that when the blow the blow up away from the board. If it wasn't scarred in the + way it is they could blow to the side and take out other components on the board. This has been another useless fact.