On Feb 18, 9:06*pm, rebel wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:54:47 -0000, Conor wrote:
In article , jakdedert
says...

Conor wrote:
In article , Rich Webb
says...

Perhaps the plague? No, not THAT one, THIS one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Worth eyeballing since you already have the main board exposed.

Didn't think laptops used electrolytic capacitors...

They're surface mount, so you might not recognize them. *Google is your
friend....

I wouldn't buy any laptop using electrolytics other than in an external
power brick.

I guess you'll never own one then ....

False. The only place a typical modern laptop has electrolytic
capacitors is in the AC-DC brick, and there typically 2 or 3. There
might be one of those old build-your-own PCChips kits still running
that has 'lytics, but that's because PCChips makes cheap junk and it
was huge for what it was, IIRC.