That is true of power supply caps, but not the mobo caps. You'll never feel anything from a mobo.
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remember to discharge the capacitors before working on them - they can retain a nasty charge.

Dave Watkins wrote:
| Evan Brown wrote:
|
|> Found my problem after some googleing, it seems that capacitors on
|> mobo's buldge/leak sometimes, who knew<shrug>? In my case one of them
|> had and the mobo was exhibiting all the signs that I was reading
|> about, I'm taking it back to memory express and they are going to
|> replace it hopefully.
|>
|> Evan Brown
|>
| FWIW,
|
| Blown caps can be replaced is some cases if the board isn't under warranty.
|
| Dave Watkins
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