[ale] Bad capacitors in computer motherboards

[rsj at radio.org (Randal Jarrett)]

Several motherboard manufactures had a bad run of caps (gray market)
that went bad in a short time.  

Check with the maker of your mother board as most of them will fix it
for you.

I've had an Asus and a Abit repaired.  What they do most of the time is
to send you an exchange mb right away.

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:45 -0500, deritchie at earthlink.net wrote:
> Chris,
>    if you are looking for bad capacitors, the best device to do this with a ESR meter. ESR stands for
> Equivalent Serial Resistance - as electrolytics go bad, this rises over time. The good news is that the 
> replacement caps are relatively cheap and easy to replace if you are handy with a soldering iron....
> 
> -- Dave Ritchie
> 
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