emma_dixon70•19d agoProlific Poster

Hit 1000 repairs this month at my shop in Cleveland. That's a bad sign.

I crossed 1000 completed repairs this month, which is way higher than normal for us. Most of them were the same three motherboard failures on HP models from 2023. Anyone else seeing a pattern with these newer boards dying faster?

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grace8919d ago

Saw a tech youtuber mention the same thing about those 2023 HP boards. Something about cheaper capacitors that burn out faster than the old ones. I've heard three different repair shops talking about how those models have the same three failure points, which is weird for a company that size. Makes you wonder if they changed suppliers or just cut corners to hit a price point.

eric_knight717d ago

Actually those cheaper caps are called "low-ESR" and they're not necessarily worse, they just have a tighter tolerance. The problem with the 2023 HP boards is more about the VRM layout, not the capacitors themselves. I've seen a few teardowns where the power delivery is crammed right next to the RAM slots with zero airflow. That's gonna cook anything over time, cheap or not.

the_joseph19d ago

@grace89 nailed it. My grandpa's 1987 Chevy still runs but these boards barely last a warranty cycle.