>> I think around 2005 Nichicon had a problem with caps with 
>> too
>> much electrolyte in them. Could that have been it?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

[added by me]

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My friend Ken Mardle says (also citing the above article):

There is a well-known problem with 1000uF/6V3 electrolytic 
capacitors dying
on nVidia GeForce FX5200 video adaptor cards in Dell 8300 
PC's.  The caps
are in some kind of local switchmode voltage regulator. 
There are four
identical caps on the board and typically two of them bulge 
(and in some
cases leak electrolyte) and develop very high leakage (100's 
of mA @ 5V in
my case).  The card stops working or displays random stripes 
and other junk.

I've had to replace the caps in two of our machines (and 
many others on the
web report the same problem).

[It is reported that]There was also a problem with 
bulging/exploding caps on motherboards in Dell
Optiplex GX270 machines.  [It is reported that] Dell even 
set aside a big lump of money in
expectation of having to deal with the problem.  The 
original CNET article
is here: [folded link]

"http://www.news.com/PCs-plagued-by-bad-capacitors/2100-1041_3-5942647.html?t
ag=nefd.lede
"

There is a general article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Regards,

Ken Mardle

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