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PCs Plagued by Bad Capacitors

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the enemy-within dept.

Hawaiian Rules writes "CNET has a story detailing a new threat to Dell PCs, Apple iMacs and other computers with Intel boards. This has been documented on BadCaps.net for some time, but the article also discusses what to do if you suspect you've got a case of the bad caps."

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  1. Re:Problem's been around for awhile. by Gulthek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pretty offtopic but what would it mean for a computer to figuratively catch fire?