Well this sucked. Had this board for a while and then BOOM! Smelly shit everywhere and dead board. Needed urgent replacement and got another Gigabyte board which has other problems (coil buzz noise which is loud and annoying).

ga-7vrx_bad_capacitors.jpg - GA-7VRX Rev 2.0 with bulged capacitors, little black thingy exploded. I guess it might be possible to replace and solder just so I can go back to using it instead of my newer (and much crappier because it makes stupid noises) GA-7N400 Pro 2 rev2.0

Beware! 2003 was a bad year for motherboards.

Others who had similar fates - http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=23&threadid=59807&enterthread=y
http://badcaps.net/
http://www.motherboardrepair.com/index.php?sec=faq

Close Up of blown parts. MTB 1306 CQ214 ? Mosfet?