Those *^#&%@#&!! Cheap A$$ Chinese Caps Got Me Again...
I went to my computer to log onto KLOV and to send a few emails and saw the LCD display was all screwed up. Tried a reboot and also a different LCD to no avail. So it had to be the video card. Yup - 4 of the caps had vented. I replaced all of them and am back in business.
This is the second video card with which I have had this pleasure. The other was on my wife's desktop about a year ago. I replaced those caps and she has been in business ever since.
Crap is crap - typical low cost cheap parts. They work great for awhile then BAM!!
I have repaired countless LCD monitors with bad caps in the power supplies.
There is a great forum called "badcaps" (badcaps.net) that documents all of these products and how to identify and replace bad capacitors. That demonstrates how much of an issue this really is. The video card was listed there but I did not have to refer to it.
So my middle finger is out toward the Chinese "crap cap" factory once again. So much for "local content" on a PCB....
Bill
I went to my computer to log onto KLOV and to send a few emails and saw the LCD display was all screwed up. Tried a reboot and also a different LCD to no avail. So it had to be the video card. Yup - 4 of the caps had vented. I replaced all of them and am back in business.
This is the second video card with which I have had this pleasure. The other was on my wife's desktop about a year ago. I replaced those caps and she has been in business ever since.
Crap is crap - typical low cost cheap parts. They work great for awhile then BAM!!
I have repaired countless LCD monitors with bad caps in the power supplies.
There is a great forum called "badcaps" (badcaps.net) that documents all of these products and how to identify and replace bad capacitors. That demonstrates how much of an issue this really is. The video card was listed there but I did not have to refer to it.
So my middle finger is out toward the Chinese "crap cap" factory once again. So much for "local content" on a PCB....
Bill

