Hi to all.
My 3rd day since joining and posting again. That capacitor issue is interesting. Looks like BPSixers that are just now replaceing the caps are the luckiest. At least 4 ways to fix their boards.
1) Pay someone else by taking it or sending to a shop that charges.
2) Pay for a capkit and do it yourself. (Don't use radshak for this one)
3) Free use the Abit RMA. Loose the board for several weeks.
I did NOT contact Abit to confirm they still do RMAs on BP6.
4) Free contact Jackson for replacement caps and do it yourself. Don't know timeframe yet.
I didn't want to loose my board for 6 weeks(I just got it 2 weeks ago) so I didn't go with the Abit RMA route. Looks like that is a free repair done by experienced pros.
Before making a purchase of caps from motherboardrepair.com or badcaps.net I decided to try contacting Jackson. One of those websites mentioned that Jackson will send replacemetns. I logged onto the Jackson.com.tw website and got the email address of
jackcon@ms14.hinet.net
I stated that I had some leaking and some protruding and some normal looking caps on my Abit BP6. I gave a list of what badcaps.net includes in their replacement kit.
WOW
I emailed Jackson yesterday(I work nights) Monday maybe 3:00am. I checked my messages today, Monday 7:00pm and there was a reply from Jackson asking me to give them an address to ship replacements to!!!! I was supprised to get a response within only hours, infact even to get a response at all. I replied giving them an address, also I mentioned that I used someone elses inventory list and said if they had a kit for BP6 I would accept whatever they sent me.
I will post followups as this story unfolds. Lets see if Jackson comes through.
BTW, has anyone else done this route yet?
There are *almost* no bad BP6s. There are mostly bad caps.
No BP6s remaining
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