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dood, the board's toast, toss it in the dumpster and move on.
I have seen people replace bad caps on motherboards...sometimes the boards are good as new, sometimes not, sometimes...*poof*.
If it hasn't failed yet, it will...what you don't know is whether it will simply die, or start corrupting your files making you think you have bad memory or a flaky hard disk.
there are thousands, perhaps millions, of motherboards out there with Taiwanese capacitors leaking electroytes.
This has been one of the biggest horror stories in the history of the industry... someone in Japan stole someone else's formula for mixing the chemicals to put in capacitors...but got it wrong...and the wrong formula spread like wildfire among Taiwanese OEMs...
Asus, Epox, Microstar, FIC, AOpen, even -Intel- motherboards made with the bad caps are out there...among others...this has cost computer and component manufacturers millions in rework and replacements...
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