They should have at least sacrifice one capacitor, testing its polarities before soldering the whole roll of capacitors on the motherboards... Because if one is wrong polarity meaning the whole roll ...

OK, i was installing a dvd rom .. and it sort of got stuck 90% of the way in. I thought it just needed a push to "click" it in... i havent done an install of these for a few months. And, it DID click.

Now we've got a product that looks somewhat akin to what you receive in the box. The larger components have been machine-fed on to the mainboard and been inserted ready for wave soldering. Optical ...

Once the motherboards have been moved to the factory's manual insertion floor, they're unpacked and placed on a conveyor belt that forms the next stage of the production line. It’s here that lines of ...

Defective capacitors--or "bad caps" as they are sometimes called--can disable your computer. And while they may not be widely familiar to consumers, they're nothing new to the PC industry. Capacitors, ...

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Defective capacitors--or "bad caps" as they are sometimes called--can disable your computer. And while they may not be widely familiar to consumers, they're nothing new to the PC industry. Capacitors, ...