En/na VDR User ha escrit:
Yeah, I know how to tell if a capacitor is bad, went to college for electronic engineering. In all my years of working with electronics I have never seen a capacitor blow because a device was left on for a long period of time and then turned off.
Yes, those were two unrelated problem, and, no, a capacitor won't blow, but as it degrades (due to excessive heat, bad quality or simply a borderline design), it will go on working while the equipment is switched on, but if you turn it off it won't work when you switch it back on.
I'd recommend buying better equipment if you're having a problem with (cheap) parts failing.
Well, usually you don't have a choice on the components used, only on the final product, and the problem with bad capacitors in motherboards is spread among many top tier vendors, so it's not a problem of cheap components. Besides, there are no-name capacitors sold as brand name ones. And even expensive products eventually fail.
Bye