Capacitors are an inexpensive little component on a PC motherboard, but they can be a costly headache for manufacturers when a whole bunch of them go bad. Last week, Dell announced it was going to ...

Capacitors, a hardware component found on a PC’s motherboard, store power and regulate voltage. They are found in a number of consumer electronic devices as well, including televisions and videotape ...

…To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt you wish. The brown capacitors that are circulating around us aren’t, specifically, too good. It is ...

I have this computer that is acting really weird. The computer will fail to boot most of the time, but sometimes it will boot and then it works okay. The problem is most of the time it doesnt boot. I ...

We've continue to cover a number issues with iMac G5s apparently overheating, and generating excessive fan noise in an apparent effort to cope with the heat. In some cases, the overheating can cause ...

[glytch] sent in a tutorial on replacing dying capacitors on a motherboard, and we honestly can’t think of a better subject for an introductory tutorial. There’s nothing like having your friends think ...

Well, I'm probably SOL since I went into my Antec Smart Power 400w power supply that came with my SX1040BII case (purchased Jan 2003 and finally used to make a new system in May 2003) to swap fans to ...

Defective capacitors--or "bad caps" as they are sometimes called--can disable your computer. And while they may not be widely familiar to consumers, they're nothing new to the PC industry. Capacitors, ...