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echo: tech
to: Jim Holsonback
from: Tom Walker
date: 2003-09-09 09:27:06
subject: Mainboard-Bulging Caps

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

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