Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:33:41 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Increasing HZ (patch for HZ > 1000) |
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> Hardware indeed. I'm a Certified Electronics Technician. Have > someone check all those electrolyric caps in the on-board psu in > particular, using a device similar to a "Capacitor Wizard" which > measures not the capacity of the cap, but the caps Equivalent Series > Resistance (ESR) at 100 kilohertz or more. Anything over half an ohm > should be replaced forthwith. This assumes of course that your tech > in charge of hot solder has the tools to do it correctly. If not, > find one who does have the tools. > > Many mobos in a period ranging from about 2.5 to 1.5 years ago were > built with caps that go defective prematurely due to a bad batch of > them from several far eastern cap makers who were fed a bad recipe > for the electrolyte in the caps, eg the Ethylene Glycol wasn't near > pure enough.
When you say "fed a bad recipe", didn't they actually steal it? Or is that just an urban legend?
M.
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