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Originally Posted by similost
Concerning the motherboards with bad caps. This is a world wide known problem. At one point, a recipe for the goo they fill them with was stolen from a company and many other companies started to use this recipe.. what they didn't know is that an ingredient was left out of the recipe, causing most of the caps made with this recipe to fail... Also, many of these caps that failed were counterfeits... The computer industry was one of the hardest hit by this, although other industries were too
Helps to know the history of things, and understand how manufacturing and business works before jumping off the bridge..
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I know all about the history of bad caps. i should have mentioned that LONG after all this was revealed, the bad caps were still being used, and are probably still being used in various designs. The company knows the caps are going to fail, yet they still use them.