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I've had that problem with capacitors in the past. Once they let the smoke out they don't work anymore!!!
I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I want to alert everyone to the
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 9:25 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: problem
of exploding capacitors on motherboards, which I just learned of tonight.
An added note: a common early manifestation of the problem is CD and DVD drives that get read and write errors because of the voltage fluctuations caused by the bad components. That might actually be relevant to some postings on this list.
Paul
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