MSI motherboard defective capacitors settlement.

[RideFree]

MSI sold motherboards with allegedly defective capacitors (as defined in the Settlement Class).
MSI sold motherboards with leaky capacitors (remember Japanese capacitors good, Taiwanese capacitors bad?).

 

[RideFree]

Your Claim Form must be received no later than February 8, 2006 in order for you to take advantage of the benefits of the Settlement.

 

[tbogstad]

Dell is about the only company screwing over people with this problem, pretty much every other motherboard manufacturer is makeing some kind of restitution, Dell is is just saying too bad so sad, not there problem, if it is out of warranty, then you are out of luck, no fix for you.

 

[llars]

Wow this is smoking hot. Has anyone tried to pricematch to staples for an even better deal?

 

[RideFree]

ars,
your meds need adjusting again

 

[Ghettocowboy]

a similar case to ABIT. Big name like ABIT and MSI using cheap parts, hmmmm, am speechless
if it is ECS, then I can understand

 

[RideFree]

You & me both.
MSI is one of the big players in M/Bs. I suppose a penny saved was a fortune multiplied by all those mutherboards & leaker capacitors...

 

[cw42]

anyone kno if this is specific models, or what time period?

 

[feelingshorter]

Originally posted by: RideFree
You & me both.
MSI is one of the big players in M/Bs. I suppose a penny saved was a fortune multiplied by all those mutherboards & leaker capacitors...

not only that, this is a reputation hit...their msi neo4 series of mobos are awsome. great price for the features and onboard 24 bit SB live.

 

[cheap]

My abit mobo also developed a bunch of busted and leaked capacitors after a warranty expired. I nearly went crazy trying to figure out wtf is going on with my computer with all the corruption, crc, and memory errors. That is until I opened up my case and noticed swelled up and cracked capacitors. Any Idea where I could order replacement capacitors so someone could soulder them for me?

EDIT: And yes I called ABIT and they basically told me I'm SOL, since my warranty expired.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally posted by: feelingshorter

not only that, this is a reputation hit...their msi neo4 series of mobos are awsome. great price for the features and onboard 24 bit SB live.

Yup. I was thinking about getting the MSI K8N Neo SLI, but now I'm a little less likely to do it. Who wants a mobo with potentially leaky capacitors?

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: cheap
My abit mobo also developed a bunch of busted and leaked capacitors after a warranty expired. I nearly went crazy trying to figure out wtf is going on with my computer with all the corruption, crc, and memory errors. That is until I opened up my case and noticed swelled up and cracked capacitors. Any Idea where I could order replacement capacitors so someone could soulder them for me?

EDIT: And yes I called ABIT and they basically told me I'm SOL, since my warranty expired.

AOPEN had the same response.

I worked for a company that used an AOPEN MB and we had a 50% failure rate most do to bad caps.

We just replaced the caps

 

[ballmode]

now im worried about my Neo4

 

[longhorn]

Large motherboard manufacturers buy capacitors by the millions.

It's not like MSI went down to Capacitors-R-Us and said, "hey, give me
some of those cheap-ass ones that leak after 6 months. They're .001 cents
cheaper per capacitor, right?"

A supplier of capacitors had a quality problem a while back. It hit many of
the major card manufacturers, and not just PC motherboards.

I certainly agree that a good company should stand behind its product and make
good on these bad cards. However, MSI, Abit, and Asus were victims of a bad
capacitor manufacter. They did not intentionally put crappy capacitors on their cards.

Here is an article that discusses this:

Link to capacitor story

 

[edfcmc]

this is a pretty

 

[RideFree]

Originally posted by: cw42
anyone kno if this is specific models, or what time period?

Whatever you do, do not read the second paragraph in the link in the original post!

 

[fornax]

Those were actually Chinese capacitors (the Taiwanese were in fact good). It was a very interesting story: a Taiwanese company engeneer went to China with the electrolyte recipe but apparently not the complete one. The Chinese started making and marketing those, and the result was that many MB companies had problems.

 

[tbogstad]

Epox fixed a 8rad+ 2.0 with bad caps I had that was out of warranty for free.

But i threw away a 8rda that had bad caps, because it just was not worth the hassle at the time, it had other physical defects , and i did not want to bother with such a old motherboard.

 

[MrMaster]

Ah man. I had 3 MSI boards go bad at that time. I even kept them for a few years but chucked them come moving time.

It still didn't stop me from buying another MSI board 2 years ago. No problems since either.

 

[mindless1]

IIRC, most of the caps that went bad on MSI boards in that era were GSC brand, green with gold stripe.

Just replaced a set on an old MSI board the other day, total cost came to about $$7 since the caps were part of a larger Digikey order. Hardly worth the time to collect as filling out the paperwork and checking up on it will take as long as it did to replace the caps.

 

[BlackGlove]

I wonder if Giga byte used the same type of parts. I just recently replace my board with an abit after I noticed that the capacitors around the Giga byte board cpu ruptured out the top.

 

[Mawashi]

Actually my MSI 6366 that i still have will qualify. I was able to pull the receipt dated from 2002 from the vendor's site so Thanks OP!

Note: i don't expect much from a P3 MB but it always bathered me that a very good system suddenly turned bad for no apparent reason! We'll see what they will do with it!

 

[msi1337]

man I am so lucky!

I have owned 26 different MSI motherboards and never once had one go bad or leak caps!!

 

[mindless1]

Originally posted by: msi1337
man I am so lucky!

I have owned 26 different MSI motherboards and never once had one go bad or leak caps!!

Going through that many it could simply be that you didn't use any of them for long enough to pop the caps?

 

[cheap]

My bad, I just checkde and my mobo isn't Abit, it's EPOX, I love the board, but extremely unhappy about the capacitor problem.