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> ago or when? What is the best explanation for the problem. I have
> been unable recipe much discussiin of the issue except for Abit
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> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:17:39 -0600, kirbalo <kirbalo@nospam.com>
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>>J. P. Willis wrote:
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>>> I started recvently having loads if exceptions erros and automatic
>>> random rebooting from my computer. Someone has suggested that it is
>>> probavbly one or more blown or bad capacitors. Have other
>>> ecepeicenced thios recently. Please relate dthe symptoms to me.
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>>I had a K7S5A v3.1 with bad caps. You will probably notice that the caps
>>have "domed" tops on them. They may also be leaking "lytic" material, but
>>not always. I had 11 caps bad near the memory subsystem. Replacing them
>>is probably not worth it, unless you feel energtic and are very good with
>>a soldering iron.
If you dig deep into news about 3 years ago, you might find some snippits.
To the best of my knowledge, the story went something like this...(Please
feel free to append, correct, etc.)
There was a gentleman at a Japanese capacitor manufacturer who left to work
at a Taiwanese capacitor manufacturer. He took what he thought was a
complete recipe for the "lytic' material with him, either in memory or in
print, probably the prior. The recipe was apparently incomplete. Other
cap. manufacturers (TW) started to use this same recipe, probably for cost
reasons. In a nutshell, the caps. are not stable over temperature, and
they break down.
It was mobo independent, and cap. manufacturer independent, AFAIK, but that
it did occur during a certain timeframe of about 3 years ago...
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Kirbalo...
K7S5A Pro, Athlon XP 1600+
1 Gig DDR, 120 GB, nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440
SuSE Linux 9.2 Pro & XP Pro Dual Boot
Linux 2.6.8-24.10-default
9:29am up 1 day 0:25, 3 users, load average: 1.18, 1.39, 1.43