It wasn't just Dell and not just a bad shipment, it was extremely
widespread. Millions of bad capacitors were made, apparently due to a bad
electrolyte formula obtained through industrial espionage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
I've replaced capacitors on several things, but by far the most difficult
was an iMac G5.
Mark
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You're lucky it was that easy. Dell knowling shipped computers for at
> least a year that had weak and/or faulty caps on the motherboard. We're
> talking about several different models - they got a whole shipment of bad
> caps from the vendor and, instead of returning them, they just went ahead
> and used them. When those PC's started dropping dead en masse a couple of
> years later, Dell found itself with a major class-action lawsuit on its
> hands which it lost. It had to replace a bunch of computers.
>
>
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