I can't tell you how many computers I replaced the mainboard for because of blown capacitors. Or the number of monitors I re-capped and brought back to life. It

I can't tell you how many computers I replaced the mainboard for because of blown capacitors. Or the number of monitors I re-capped and brought back to life. It's a known thing in the LCD TV industry as well. Some industrial espionage went wrong and a bad electrolyte formula was stolen, and of that's of course what manufacturers who were trying to save a buck (all of them for the most part) got. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague