[plug] Hdd probs - IBM deskstar experiences?

[quadfour at iinet.net.au]

Hi Garry,

One of these days I'll just get around to soldering a new capacitor in there,
its in a nice and simple position :)

Regards
Michael Collard

Quoting Garry <garbuck at westnet.com.au>:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:31:35 +0800
> quadfour at iinet.net.au wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of capacitors, I have one on my video card (NVidia 4200Ti) which
> is
> > slowly spewing some orange stuff. Since it still works I'm ignoring it :)
> 
> Most computers run on smoke. Yours must be one of the "orange stuff"
> experiments..
> 
> Same principle applies though. When the smoke/orange stuff has escaped, the
> show is over. If it were me I'd get it seen to (get the orange stuff
> recharged,iow) as sooner or later you will run out. Probably in the middle of
> the night on a long weekend. 8^)==
> 
> Harry is sure to know the tekknickal name for the Orange Stuff. Used to be
> called dielectric, but who knows these days?
> 
> HTH
> 
> Garry.
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