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Capacitors just don’t work after a while. To get most old computers working, you have to surgically replace all capacitors first.

• JohnFen 4y ago
  Yes, but most capacitors last more than 20 years. I've never had to recap a computer that young.
  • fooker 4y ago
    Are you perhaps from a place with relatively low humidity? 20 years is really stretching it, when it comes to the life of cheap capacitors anywhere in the lower latitudes.