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Michael Brown wrote:
> dawg wrote:
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>>Ed Light wrote:
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>>>http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html
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>>More ammunition for a growing problem. I remember reading about the
>>leaky caps a couple years ago.
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> Do note, of course, that this article is from a bit of two years ago
2-3 years ago I had a couple of MSI boards fails with symptoms that made
me suspect bad capaitors, though I couldn't see any obvious leakage. I
found it most cost-effective at the time to just replace the
motherboards with newer models, as they were out of warranty, and I
wasn't absolutely certain the caps were to blame.
And, as Michael notes, I have not seen much mention of the problem since.
But, a couple of weeks ago, my webserver/firewall/gateway machine (a VIA
c3 on a VIA C3M266 motherboard) after having run almost 2 years without
a glitch began spontaneously rebooting, and after a day or so was
rebooting about once a minute. When I opened it up, most of the 1000uF
caps showed bulging or leakage.
(Slightly more on topic) I checked out replacing it with an undervolted,
underclocked mobile Athlon or Athlon 64, but that was relatively
expensive, and would have ended up using more power and generating more
heat.
I replaced 27 capacitors and now it is running again.
Pete
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>>Some were obviously failing very
>>early. It looks like the bilk of them have started failingin the last
>>six months. I'm wondering how large a problem this is going to be.
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