Hello, Tom.
-=> TOM WALKER wrote to JIM HOLSONBACK <=-

 -> I was swapping some memory around the boards in my office and found a coupl
 -> of boards with  bulging capacitors, but they appear to work fine. Am I abou
 -> ready to have problems with these or will they limp along fine for the
 -> indefinite future? What causes the bulging anyway?
 -> Bob

 TW>  Usualy overheating. Some caps are placed to close to very Hot
 TW> componments unfortunatly..Althouhg in all fairness one has soem
 TW> limitations when designing Circuit cards. And those becoem even more
 TW> critisal as Buss speeds and CPU speeds increase.

Unfortunately for my friend who I was quoting above, these were Athlon
Slot A boards.  For the Caps close to the cpu, there is a lot of heat in
the area.  Ref book says one of the Slot A Athlon 1GHz can use up to
65Watts Max. It says it uses 1.80V,  37Amps max. current.

ttyl - - -  JimH.





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