The most recent issue with capacitors is not bad electrolyte, IIRC, but that Nichion was overfilling their caps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Speaking of bad caps... anyone know a Fast And Easy Way to remove capacitors from a motherboard? I've got a perfectly good AMD motherboard here with lovely 3rd rate capacitors that are in various stages of failure, and would replace them if not for the fact that I can't seem to melt the solder on the leads. On 1/8/06, michael brown wrote: > From: "Mike Harrison" > > > > > > >I don't know what Dell is up to but their quality control and over > all > > >quality does seem to be slipping. > > > > ..but if you think they're bad, take a look at the dangerous junk > knocked out by the competition... > > I just took a look inside a fake Dell laptop PSU : > > http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/acadapter.html > > Warning : contains scenes some engineers may find disturbing. > > Nice, an obvious fire hazard. This brings up something I wanted to > mention at the beginning of the thread. From what I've heard, most of > the failing Dell power supplies is due to the second round of bad > capacitors to flood the world markets. Apparently someone is still > using the bad/stolen formula since bulging/exploding caps are becoming > popular again. I have seen several motherboard failures within the last > year (boards < 2 years old) due to burst/leaking caps. These were > quality, name-brand boards. Well, excepting the Epox board anyway. ;-) > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- -Randy Glenn Computer Eng. and Mgt. Year IV, McMaster University Industry Liason, McMaster IEEE Student Branch randy.glenn-at-gmail.com - glennrb-at-mcmaster.ca randy.glenn-at-computer.org - randy_glenn-at-ieee.org http://www.randyglenn.ca -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist