Leaking capacitors muck up motherboards.
Aluminum electrolytic capacitors with a low equivalent series resistance (ESR) are high-capacitance components that generally serve to smooth out the power supply to chips. Throughout 2002, they have been breaking open and failing in certain desktop PCs. So far, the only motherboard maker to admit t...
| Published in: | IEEE spectrum 40, 2 (2003). |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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