[rescue] Slightly OT: Bad Cap Saga

[Brian Deloria]

crap.  I've got about 15 p360's in use at work now.  I think I will try
expediting the replacement of them with T7400's.  Just the VRM or were there
other areas?  I know we had a p370 with some caps on the board swollen.

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Erie Patsellis <erie at shelbyvilledesign.com
> wrote:

> Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:11:58AM -0700, Curious George wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm seeing a *lot* of "broken devices" that *just* have
>>> bad electrolytics somewhere in the power supply, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> A number of companies got hit by the "bad cap" problem a few years ago.
>> Apple had a documented recall on the first iMac G5 system boards; I had to
>> replace mine due to this problem.  Here's pictures:
>>
>> http://www.mrbill.net/photos/imacmidplane/
>>
>> Bulged caps:
>> http://www.mrbill.net/photos/imacmidplane/tn/IMG_0744.jpg.html
>>
>> My Dell Precision 360 at work lasted longer - it took 4.5 years for it to
>> finally blow some of the VRM caps after a power outage.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
> ewww, not good, my 360 is getting close to that age now, time to take a
> peek next time I have it open and plan on replacing a pile of caps.
>
>
> erie
>
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