7 Jun
2005
7 Jun
'05
9:36 a.m.
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 04:06, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
I've been told from a reputable source that it
wasn't actually the mobo
factories which did the dirty as such. An electrolyte formula was
apparently stolen from a factory, copied at another and then stolen *again*
and passed to a third. It was the resulting capacitors from the third
factory which, falsely branded as a reputable brand, found their way into
all these mainboards which have been dying over the past 3 or so years.
For the full story, see:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html
Cheers!
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