“Then late at night I am merely surfing the web and all of a sudden it hard shuts off again, and this time when I look over there I see a component on the motherboard literally on fire.
“In our ongoing investigation, we have preliminarily identified a potential reversed memory capacitor issue in the production process from one of the production lines that may cause debug error code 53, no post, or motherboard components damage. The issue potentially affects units manufactured in 2021 with the part number 90MB18E0-MVAAY0 and serial number starting with MA, MB, or MC.
Even if your board doesn’t match those serial numbers, you should proceed with caution as Asus says it is continuing its investigation to see which boards are affected. This may sound silly, but if you don’t know your motherboard’s batch number, check to see if the “150" printed on the capacitor is facing the correct direction or if it is upside down. If it’s the latter, contact Asus’s support team and ask for a replacement.
Asus’s statement only confirms what popular YouTuber Buildzoid had already predicted. He identified what was wrong with the motherboard, explaining that the polarity stripe on the backward polarized capacitor was itself installed backward, causing nearby MOSFETs to fry. Sure enough, every affected board shares the same issue where two MOSFETs tasked with sending 5V of power to other parts of the motherboard were burned up by the faulty memory capacitor.Asus seems to be taking the right steps to get these out of customers’ homes, but such a potentially dangerous blunder calls into question the company’s quality control.
I had the same thing just happen with my ROG Zenith Extreme II, thought it was something i did