On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 16:09:51 -0400, "George N. White III" <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Jamie Bohr wrote: > > Are those Super Micro's dying of leaking electrolytic capacitors? > I've seen too many leaky or bulging capacitors. One P-III system > refused to boot after a few capacitors showed signs of bulging tops. I > replaced the system board and set the old one aside. I recently took > another look -- after a year of sitting idle, all the electrolytics were > bulging, which suggests an aging process with a finite lifespan. Note that there was a spike in problems with capacitors a few years ago after a company bungled their industrial espionage and produced a bunch of capacitors with a bad electrolyte formula. By the time they found out the formula was bad, a lot of motherboards using them had been produced.
