On Jul 27, 6:49*pm, "Wild_Bill" wrote:
That article was from 2003, pointing out that the problem could've started
as early as 2001.
Any of the caps made with that bad electrolyte would have failed by now,
even if they were sitting on a shelf.
Any motherboard manufacturer that intends to make more than 1 batch of
motherboards would know better than to use old stock caps for production.

Failed electrolytic capacitors are common in many different types of
consumer grade electronic equipment, and it's extremely unlikely that any of
the failures today have anything to do with the stolen/counterfeit
electrolyte formulas as reported years ago.
The reasons for the failures are known, as most selected electrolytic
capacitors only minimally meet the application requirements, or not at all
(good enough to get the product onto store shelves).

The story writers need a new conspiracy theory, such as several large
warehouses full of the caps that have the bad electrolyte were re-wrapped
with new counterfeit labels/skins and sold to various equipment
manufacturers about a year ago.
The caps were discovered while administering the estate of a prominent Asian
businessman that died under questionable circumstances a number of years
ago.
I'm sure this scenario is lacking in an adequate level of drama, which for
any good writer, shouldn't be a problem.

--
WB
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..............Paul

Bill, you can *THINK* whatever you want, or you can come over here and
look at the pile of bad caps I have replaced in the past year. This is
not a fantasy. Take an LCD with a black screen, open it up, look for
the bulging caps. replace them, and you have a working monitor. Of
course, while in there, I test and replace all the suspect caps. It is
very seldom that an LCD fails for any other reason.