Re: Linux nukes my network hardware?
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:28:06 -0600
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> Gerard H. Pille wrote:
>
> >Got feedback about the previous MB: a number of capacitors blown.
> >Capacitors on the current MB look fine to me.
> >
> >Linuxing may harm your capacitors?
> >
> >
>
> We're a Dell shop where I work, and over the past couple of years have
> had to replace a LOT of Dell mobos because of bad caps; our hardware guy
> tells us that this seems to be true for many of Dell's customers lately.
> He also tells us that Apple was having similar problem a year or so ago
> with their one of their lines (all-in-one flat panel eMacs, maybe?
> Mac-on-a-stick? I forget which model.).
>
I have seen capacitors leak, by power line over volts (don't know the exact expression) or changes... Here in my city in Brazil, this is normal to this happen
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