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 ...

Performance problems with the company’s GX270 and GX280 Optiplex computers were specifically named as part of the company’s anticipated failure to meet its third-quarter revenue forecast. Dell ...

When I worked with the robotic systems at the General Motors Oshawa Truck Plant, I was told by one of the engineers that there was an open capacitor on the motherboard of a robot controller. I told ...

One of my depts has about 6 Dell GX270 towers and 2 of them had motherboards die due to bad caps. Dell replaced them free despite them being out of warranty. But that offer expired some time ago. Now ...

HD Electric Co.'s Cap Check line of capacitor testers are designed to identify internal problems with a capacitor or capacitor bank and have proven to be a valuable asset in maintaining both ...

Regular readers of Hackaday are intimately knowledgeable about old electronics, and whether it’s about that old oscilloscope sitting in the pile of other oscilloscopes, or the very rare vintage ...

Newly discovered documents in a lawsuit started nearly three years ago against Dell have revealed that the giant PC manufacturer knowingly sold defective computer systems. Around 12 million OptiPlex ...

I got an odd bluescreeen today (NTFS--so either HD or memory), and I pulled open my pc to check things out. In reseating the memory, I noticed that 4 of the large caps around the processor are ...

HDE's Cap Check line of capacitor testers is designed to identify internal problems with a capacitor or capacitor bank and have proven to be a valuable asset in maintaining both pole-mounted and ...