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Illicit Leaky Capacitors Killing Motherboards
mcd7756 writes "The IEEE Spectrum magazine has an article about how capacitors made with a stolen formula for the electrolyte are leaking and causing motherboards to fail. Some computer manufacturers are admitting to the problem; others are hiding it."
but this article is on a ieee.org host, giving the situation more weight.
"Indeed, those who have repaired the damaged boards say that they have encountered crippled motherboards from Micro-Star International, ASUSTek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, and others."
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Well shit, and I thought the woolly jumper I wore when I built my box killed it. Now I don't have to feel so bad about sending our broken mobos back and claiming it arrived that way! (I'm joking, I'm joking! Nobody tell Dell or the Cowboy gets it.
Good thing my computer is from 97.
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but at least I'll admit to it. Unlike certain manufacturers.
Tech Support : Is there a capacitor leaking on your motherboard ?
Customer : What ???? How dare you talk about my moma like that, tell me right now, who's that #@&*%$ capacitor ?
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Wow you mentioned RIAA MPAA and Soviet Russia.
That's three stones with one bird.
...capacitors made with a stolen formula...
It's OK, Tony the Tiger always gets the secret formula back anyway.
no one yet wrote 'the capacitor couldn't take it. Har Har Har'
;)
Maybe it's a conspiracy - all the capacitors in the entire world would commit suicide at the same time, destroying computing world wide.
Or maybe I have nothing to reply to this. Except that, as a mostly-software-guy, I feel in many ways 'morally superior' to mere hardware faults...
My other
ESR capacitors
I read this as: 'ESR capacitated and leaking all over my motherboard'. Trying to get that picture out of my head. Failed..Going home, to take a nap.
Didn't they mean to say that "Leaking Capacitors Muck up Fotherboards"?
4000 hours for the good capacitors? That's like 6 months of continuous usage.
They got maths lessions from the RIAA?
"These motherboards are obviously being sold for use in music piracy. Why else would they put onboard audio on it? These 'secured' capacators are designed to protect our prof^H^H^H^H.. artists from these thiefs."
> what other devices use these suspect capacitors? aircraft? cars?
Sigh. There goes another 10 years before our flying cars get here.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
now the drip?
What the hell is the next STD for motherboards?
digital clymidia?
> Anyone care to speculate?
;)
you've come to the right place...
All your electrolyte are belong to us
Imagine a bewolf cluster made of motherboards with leaking capacitors.
Under capitialism, man exploits man; under communism, it's the other way around.
All capacitors have what is called an equivelent series resistance, or ESR (great: now we have 2 TLAs that are overloaded in context: RMS and ESR... )
My experience is that anytime you get ESR and RMS in the same room, there's going to be an explosion eventually.
There was an old story, an urban legend perhaps, about DEC engineers inscribing a message in Russian right on the CPU chips' silicon for the Russians to read.
Allegedly, it read: VAX, when you care enough to steal the very best.
This is the lowest thing Microsoft has ever done in order to sell additional licenses.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.