Happy Hopping
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I have a few motherboards, 5 year old, that has capacitor plague. Would you replace them? Because locally they charge me $4/capacitor (Japan), is that a good price?
Because I don't mind replacing a few capacitors on a motherboard, and get the whole machine up and running again. But my concern is, if I replace those defective capacitors, more on that same motherboard will become defective in the near future. So it becomes not worth it if that's the case.
and from wikipedia, it doesn't say if these plague can be caused by prolong bad power supply or some sort of 1 time bad voltage shock. Can anyone tell me what the story is?
All it says is "The capacitors fail because of a special water based corrosion effect, due to a poorly formulated electrolyte."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
Because I don't mind replacing a few capacitors on a motherboard, and get the whole machine up and running again. But my concern is, if I replace those defective capacitors, more on that same motherboard will become defective in the near future. So it becomes not worth it if that's the case.
and from wikipedia, it doesn't say if these plague can be caused by prolong bad power supply or some sort of 1 time bad voltage shock. Can anyone tell me what the story is?
All it says is "The capacitors fail because of a special water based corrosion effect, due to a poorly formulated electrolyte."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague