On Fri Jan 14 23:29:27 EST 2011, [email protected] wrote: > > oh, and yes. when pulling the old motherboard i noticed > > about 2/3 of the caps are dripping. > > I wonder how that happened? Every hardware problem I have diagnosed > and occasionally fixed in the last few years, from motherboards to CRT > monitors to external power supplies (mains voltage converters) has > boiled down to one or more 10μF electrolytics packing up. How many > faulty capacitors were manufactured and deployed? By whom? > Intentionally?
these are 6.6v 1800µF caps. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague - erik
