My Damaged FORSA Graphics Card

Out of the sudden, i'm haunted with dreaded blue screens of death (BSOD) and frequent short lived blackout and distorted displays on my monitor. It freaked me out and I thought that the third installment of disaster on my BENQ LCD is going to fall on me. Good news and bad news.

What's comforting is my monitor survived. Yeah. And on the other side, my FORSA 128bit 128MB GeForce6600LE that serves me locally over the past 3 years is officially declared dead. Let's do some post mortem.


Some of the normal capacitors on the card.




The pictures below showing the damaged capacitors. One interesting fact is all of the spoiled capacitors are located near the metal ring. Design flaws maybe?