Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 02:25, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I want to alert everyone to the
> problem of exploding capacitors on motherboards, which I just learned of
> tonight.  A friend of mine was hit by it and the defective capacitor caused
> a short that took the power supply and monitor with it.  Your Linux system
> is only as good as the hardware underneath it!
>
> The problem is that some Asian manufacturers have been turning out these
> defective capacitors, based on a stolen electrolyte formula that they
> didn't get quite right.   The bad capacitors have appeared on ABIT boards
> as well as on computers from Dell and IBM.  If you think this might be an
> urban legend, just check the article in IEEE Spectrum:
>
>    http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html
>
> Paul
Hum  those are baby caps on the MoBo  you want to see 250,000uF@30Vdc 
go Bang ye gads i have had a couple go down they totally wrecked the PSU case 
and i do mean TOTALLY ripped the chassis not a straight panle in sight cost a 
lot to rebuild that did the only thing that survived was the HUGE transformer
12-0-12 VAC @130 amps

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