[rescue] Slightly OT: Bad Cap Saga

[Erie Patsellis]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:11:58AM -0700, Curious George wrote:
>   
>> I'm seeing a *lot* of "broken devices" that *just* have
>> bad electrolytics somewhere in the power supply, etc.
>>     
>
> A number of companies got hit by the "bad cap" problem a few years ago.
> Apple had a documented recall on the first iMac G5 system boards; I had to
> replace mine due to this problem.  Here's pictures:
>
> http://www.mrbill.net/photos/imacmidplane/
>
> Bulged caps:
> http://www.mrbill.net/photos/imacmidplane/tn/IMG_0744.jpg.html
>
> My Dell Precision 360 at work lasted longer - it took 4.5 years for it to
> finally blow some of the VRM caps after a power outage.
>
> Bill
>
>   
ewww, not good, my 360 is getting close to that age now, time to take a 
peek next time I have it open and plan on replacing a pile of caps.


erie