[PLUG] Bad Caps, was Lenovo T410?

[m0gely]

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