[ale] Can Bad Video Settings Fry LCD Monitors?

[JD]

I owned a dual-CPU Celeron "server" in 2000 that had those bad capacitors.

This was one of the first multi-CPU systems (SMP) that home users could easily
afford. After a few years of 24/7 uses (headless, just power and ping sitting in
a closet). One day is died. Never booted again.  By that point, the cheap
capacitor issue was well known.  Looked at the MB and saw that most of the caps
had leaked.

The RH "server" was in rpm-hell anyway, time for a change ... to SUSE. ;)

On 10/31/2013 08:46 AM, David Stephens wrote:
> I work in a small electronics repair shop here in Atlanta. As of late we are
> seeing  a lot of gear suffering from failed capacitors, most are smt devices. It
> is one thing to have failed capacitors in a home computer/laptop since generally
> people upgrade systems on a regular basis as speeds/capacities increase.