Carlos E. R. wrote:
But there are other auxiliary components that can fail earlier, like electrolytic capacitors.
Each individual component carries a certain risk of breaking. Add to that the interconnections between components.
I know. My small point was that I did study components in some detail, but the books and teachers I had said nothing about how each component fails.
When you're designing electronics, it's not so important _how_ a component will fail, but _when_ it will. I too studied electronics along time ago, and I can't remember many lessons about _how_ components fail. However, when I subsequently joined the real world, MTBF suddenly popped up.
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. /Per -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org