On 2008/12/31 13:30 (GMT+0100) Per Jessen composed:
Wrt electrolytic capacitors, I have had at least three motherboards fail due to those.
Yes, around 2001 there were sold many boards that failed too early due to bad capacitors from the same manufacturer, I think. They wanted cheaper and they made big news :-(
I know I had one ASUS board where I replaced a few of the capacitors, and I've also had two Gigabyte boards fail in the last 3-4 years. I know I could just have replaced the capacitors on those too, but I was lazy.
I've had success replacing bad motherboard caps about 2/3 of the time, worse of late. I did 3 week before last and only one succeeded. I guess sometimes cap failure can take out other components. -- "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain." Psalm 127:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org