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Re:Capacitor plague by zdw on Friday May 17, 2013 @07:55PM (#5727296)
Basically it's a good deal of the devices in the "iMac G5, Athlon XP, Pentium-4 with HyperThreading" era, or at least that's when I saw it the worst.

Laptops generally weren't affected, as SMD capacitors generally aren't electrolytic.

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Re:Capacitor plague by fein on Friday May 17, 2013 @09:14PM (#5727514)
I used to do desktop support for a University, in which my daily job was reclaiming and sifting through hordes of gx270's and gx260's to find working mobos.

I swear they made the cases on those things out of razor blades. I probably could have replace the electrolytic material in most of the blown caps with my own blood.

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