Possibly. This is a fairly common condition, so much so that there is quite the business for selling kits for various motherboards out there.
In the case of the iMacs, G5s specifically, a cap manufacturer literally stole the formula for the electrolyte from a competitor and proceeded to make their own caps using the bootlegged formula. A large number of these were sold to Foxconn, a large manufacturer who assembles PCs for nearly all PC makers. A couple of years later, the caps start to fail. It was bad enough that Apple had a campaign for board replacement. Dan Sent from my iPhone On Jan 3, 2012, at 2:40 PM, "Allan Streib" <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > As far as the caps, if one is blown can I assume many others are to > follow? If so, I'm not going to fool around with soldering in new ones. > > Or do they tend to stay good if they haven't blown by now? > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012, at 02:11 PM, Dan Penoff wrote: > >> I didn't want to stick my neck out, as I don't get into PC mobo stuff >> any more, but it has been my understanding that Intel and AMD both >> have proprietary CPU socket standards. >> >> As for your bad caps, that is typical. If a cap actually blows, you >> would know it from the mess. >> >> Typical failure mode is to see them swell up. It's not that common for >> them to burst, from what I have seen. >> >> Recapping is cheap and fairly easy. I have an iMac G5 on the bench >> right now that needs to be recapped. A couple hours of work along with >> $17 worth of caps and I'll have a working iMac G5 again... >> >> Dan >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
