Posted by chrisd on Thursday February 06, @05:38AM
from the plans-out-the-back-door dept.
mcd7756 writes "The IEEE Spectrum magazine has an article about how capacitors made with a stolen formula for the electrolyte are leaking and causing motherboards to fail. Some computer manufacturers are admitting to the problem; others are hiding it."
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/05/2327218.shtml?tid=137 (http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/05/2327218.shtml?tid=137)
Though older computers suffer from this problem, it is becoming quite common for brand new motherboards to have capacitors explode--and it's not fun.
--Beanie