nOw2 wrote:
aardvark, I've not seem any of those type of capacitors fail on an Amiga. Certainly, the make & type they talk about hasn't even been used on one AFAIK.
I do have a PC here with a Gigabyte mb (from 2002) full of buldging capacitors around the CPU. I have run the machine rather warm (it spent last summer with the case temperature at 50C+ and the year before with the CPU at around 75C), but that's well within spec so you'd expect better really..
You should really contact Gigabyte about a RMA, as if they did use the bad 'batch,' better to find out if they'll cover your shipping now than deal with an unexpected failure. Worth a shot, anyway.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the mis-installed capacitor issue on the... 4000, was it?... That'd have similar symptoms, but for a correctible 'reason.' Now I have to find the link...
