That might be a little different -- much more recent - presumably in the ear of flat screens and PCs where there have been times when manufacturers got fed bad capacitors for their boards - which then failed later. IBM replaced a whole series of motherboards in one organization that I worked at because of that (though those were not power supply capacitors.)
On 7/17/2015 1:53 PM, Mouse wrote: >> I do find this witch-hunt against capacitors to be curious, given how >> few I've found to have failed. I suspect a lot of it comes from >> audiophools who think this is the way to fix anything... > > Perhaps. But not all of it, certainly. I'm currently four for four > fixing dead flatscreens by re-capping their power supplies; I imagine > others have similar experiences. It's not a huge stretch to imagine > that other power supplies may have similar issues; even if it turns out > to not be the case, there is probably at least a little "can't hurt > anything, right?" running around. > > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B >
