On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 21:59:19 +0000, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 15:14, Ed Greshko wrote: > > What motherboard are you talking about...and what time frame are you > > certain was the time when it was manufactured with faulty capacitors? > > What I know is not precisely for one specific type of motherboard. It's just > that during the Pentium II / III era it was like general practice to put > cheap capacitors on motherboards. Note --- *cheap*, not faulty. This means > that the lifetime of some capacitors was as a rule far shorter than that of > the motherboard, and the outcome was that motherboards often needed > replacement after a year or so. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
