[sdiy] "Boutique" capacitors

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 04 February 2005 10:59 pm, Heitor Alves wrote:
> I've been reparing computers for about 10 years... since the Pentium 2
> hit the market, its very usual to motherboards have theyr 2200uF caps
> blown... not only from VIA FDI but even from Intel boards. 80% of the
> mainboards problems derive from that problem... even my own board had
> 2 times some caps substituted with sucsess... its a market thing i
> believe... no mainboard is made to live for more than 1.5 to 2 years
> of intense use (24hrs on).

Uh oh.    :-(

Looking at my uptime on this machine,  it's sitting at 184 days plus.