> I think 25% of our Dell motherboards broke in the spring of 2006 because of a batch of bad capacitors The capacitor plague. Pretty much everybody in the ind

> I think 25% of our Dell motherboards broke in the spring of 2006 because of a batch of bad capacitors The capacitor plague. Pretty much everybody in the industry was hit by that to at least some extent: > "Major vendors of motherboards such as Abit,[9] IBM,[1] Dell,[10] Apple, HP, and Intel[11] were affected by capacitors with faulty electrolytes. In 2005, Dell spent some US$420 million replacing motherboards outright and on the logistics of determining whether a system was in need of replacement.[12][13] Many other equipment manufacturers unknowingly assembled and sold boards with faulty capacitors, and as a result the effect of the capacitor plague could be seen in all kinds of devices worldwide. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Prevalence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Prevalence