Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, m0gely wrote: > >> Bad caps suck. > > That wouldn't be too bad. It's when they leak that problems arise. :-)
Well that's what I mean when I say that. I have two nice Asus video cards on my shelf right now that have the same caps on each one that are burst. And they are solid core caps, not electrolyte. These were suppose to be the answer to all the bad cap stories out there. I have several Dell desktops at work that I haven't gotten around to replacing the swollen or burst caps yet, power supplies from HP and Supermicro last week, etc. I've been thinking about getting a small parts cabinet just to store all the different caps I have now. http://worldbbnews.com/2010/06/how-a-stolen-capacitor-formula-ended-up-costing-dell-300m/ I remember when this all hit the fan back then. You could buy cap replacement kits on eBay for your favorite motherboard that suddenly had a bunch of leaking capacitors. The problem of Dell here is how they reacted to this. The bad caps have affected just about everyone who makes electronics. A guy I did some work for about a month ago had to have his less than a year old LCD TV repaired. The tech brought the caps with him knowing what he'd find and was right. -- m0gely _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
