[H-GEN] Capacitor replacement on motherboard

[Patrick Nichols]

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Hi all,

I arrived home last night to find my server was non responsive (black
screen, fans/drives spinning, no network response), and in a non-stable
frame of mind.

I moved all the peripherals over to another machine and got myself back
online, and proceeded to investigate why my abit bp6 wasn't behaving
nicely any more.

The large capacitors on the motherboard (1500uf, 6.2V) are swollen, and
have brown ooze coming out of the top of them just like in the pictures
at:

  http://home.att.net/~garyheadlee/index.html

I'm guessing putting some new capacitors on the board like this guy offers
will solve the problem.

Does anybody know anybody in Brisbane or Australia that performs this task
for a reasonable amount?  Or is anybody confident enough with a soldering
iron to perform this repair for me?

-- 
Regards,
Patrick Nichols

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