[mythtv-users] EPIA MII10K... acting up

Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom at shaw.ca
Sun May 4 07:50:19 UTC 2008


On May 3, 2008, Sarah Katherine Hayes wrote:
> Sarah Katherine Hayes wrote:
> > John Fountain wrote:
> >> I'm willing to bet that you have a bad capacitor or 2 on that board. I
> >> have gone thru 2 of these things so far. The first one I chucked when
> >> it failed because I didn't know what was wrong until after the fact
> >> and the second one I'm using now has blown every single capacitor on
> >> the board at one time or another over the past 2 years of its life. I
> >> have re-soldered new ones in each time and the board continues to
> >> work. I think it cost me around $12 for all the longer-life caps for
> >> the board.
> >
> > You can insert random amounts of swearing based on the fact I can't
> > solder.  I'll drag it back out from under the Telly and start checking
> > the caps out.  I thought VIA escaped the bad batch of electrolitics so
> > hadn't considered that.

In VIA's case its that they just use cheap capacitors. All of thier Mini-ITX 
boards are known to use cheap caps, that will almost certianly fail within a 
year or two of use.

> > If it is, expect a "Hey, I want to build a sweet frontend" type thread
> > appearing shortly :S
>
> Just a follow up.  Spotted two bulging caps on the PSU PCB and one that
> had not only bulged but leaking on the board itself.  *sigh*  Damn thing.
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