Good hint on the capacitors, although I seem to recall that problem was mostly confined to MSI mobos, and not ASUS.
I might be mistaken, but I think the majority of bad capacitors ended up with MSI and they actually settled out of court in a class action suit brought against them.
The capacitors ended up in a lot of different products, not just computer motherboards. And, AFAIK, they affected multiple mobo manufacturers. We have replaced dozens of Dell motherboards, which are made by Foxconn, I believe.
Not so. I've seen several manufacturer's boards with this problem. Apparently the capacitor manufacturer(s) put out a lot of defective product. There are some class action suits on this but I haven't kept up with them. Seems to be mostly on boards from four to six years ago.
Many manufacturers were affected, Abit, MSI, ECS/PCChips, Jetway, Gigabyte, Epox etc etc...
Even some Dell GX270 and 280, SC400 etc etc...
Abit, MSI & Jetway are the only ones being sued or have been sued in class actions lawsuits...
And to all of those that think Apples hardware is so friggin superior, the imac, G4 & G5 have suffered similar fates with bad caps, bad power supply boards and bad CRT's, I have an Imac DV Graphite to prove that point... and links to bad caps used in various models... the machines cost more because you're paying for something that is less that 10% of the PC market, not because the parts are any better.