On Tuesday 07 June 2005 04:06, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > I've been told from a reputable source that it wasn't actually the mobo > factories which did the dirty as such. An electrolyte formula was > apparently stolen from a factory, copied at another and then stolen *again* > and passed to a third. It was the resulting capacitors from the third > factory which, falsely branded as a reputable brand, found their way into > all these mainboards which have been dying over the past 3 or so years.
For the full story, see: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development | | | Salem Radio Labs | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Petty's car upside down, then I | | thought "one of us is in real trouble". | | -- Davey Allison, on a 150 mph crash | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|