[rescue] Sun Ultra 20s on surpluscomputers.com

Francois Dion francois.dion at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 21:03:28 CDT 2010


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote:
> If any 270 lasted this long, it more than likely doesn't have the bad
> caps. We are talking about machines failing due to Nichicon (a really
> good manufacturer, so really something unusual) caps from a specific
> batch (2 runs to be precise), made 6 years ago. The last board with
> these caps shipped over 5 years ago and most MBs were replaced under

Apparently I cant do math... 2003 was 7 years ago. wow. already. These
things are ancient. All the faulty GX270 boards were from 2003-2004,
so at least 6 years old.



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