About 5 months ago I posted and learned from this community about cheap Taiwanese capacitors on mobos. Now it's official: all seven of my ECS K7S5a mobos have died, all of the same disease. Just thought I'd let ya'll know. I still have two more, but they are in cases, mounted vertically. The others were horizontal. All are on 24/7. The two in cases occasionally run windows for network games, but linux the rest of the time. I'm pricing replacement mobos.

btw, don't buy any used K7S5a's!