I just got hit by this issue in my Dell GX270. Its the one i use for HPIB
instruments/Heather. The video output disappeared. Doing a web search i
found lots of posts on they used faulty capacitors. They didnt do a recall
as it would lead to "bad customer perception of Dells quality" (they had
just done a battery recall).
Upon examination 2 had "bulged" You can get kits to replace all 18
electrolytics. It may explain why there are a lot of gx260/270/280 unsold on
ebay recently
Dave
Message: 5
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:01:38 +0000
From: Mark Sims <[email protected]>
Subject: [time-nuts] 5070B once more.... (actually 5370A fans)
To: <[email protected]>
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Many failed electrolytic caps on PC motherboards and in PC power supplies can be traced to a case of industrial espionage gone wrong. Somebody sole the formula for the caps from a Japanese company and sold it to a competitor. That competitor allegedly cranked out over a billion of the caps and cornered the market with their cheap prices. Unfortunately the formula that was stolen was missing a key ingredient... voila, over a billion capacitors in a zillion PC's... and every one of them is destined to fail. The failure mode is goo oozing out the top of the cap.
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