Hmm, this problem is a lot more severe than I thought! I had always assumed that the problem was limited to Abit BX133-RAID boards. I had 2 of my personal boards die this way in early 2002. The company I work for buys only Abit boards, and out of a batch of 30 BX133s, there aren't many left. No wonder Returns took so long to process the bad boards - I'll bet there's a lot more bad ones out there than they'll admit to. Good news is that in all cases, none of the other components or peripherals had been damaged. In fact, the boards whose capacitors were just puffed up (not yet leaking) would work fine if we underclock them. That way there's no downtime while we wait for replacements.
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This is a perect example of a dialog-box language barrier: Firmware Update
My only option was to click 'OK', and to my surprise the drive still works.
Hmm, this problem is a lot more severe than I thought! I had always assumed that the problem was limited to Abit BX133-RAID boards. I had 2 of my personal boards die this way in early 2002. The company I work for buys only Abit boards, and out of a batch of 30 BX133s, there aren't many left. No wonder Returns took so long to process the bad boards - I'll bet there's a lot more bad ones out there than they'll admit to.
Good news is that in all cases, none of the other components or peripherals had been damaged. In fact, the boards whose capacitors were just puffed up (not yet leaking) would work fine if we underclock them. That way there's no downtime while we wait for replacements.
flammable : inflammable :: duh : no duh
WPI has an excellent fire protection engineering program. I wouldn't worry.