From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net,
Jean-Marc Valin <Jean-Marc.Valin@USherbrooke.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Increasing HZ (patch for HZ > 1000)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:33:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316960000.1071164020@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312111218.35254.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
> Hardware indeed. I'm a Certified Electronics Technician. Have
> someone check all those electrolyric caps in the on-board psu in
> particular, using a device similar to a "Capacitor Wizard" which
> measures not the capacity of the cap, but the caps Equivalent Series
> Resistance (ESR) at 100 kilohertz or more. Anything over half an ohm
> should be replaced forthwith. This assumes of course that your tech
> in charge of hot solder has the tools to do it correctly. If not,
> find one who does have the tools.
>
> Many mobos in a period ranging from about 2.5 to 1.5 years ago were
> built with caps that go defective prematurely due to a bad batch of
> them from several far eastern cap makers who were fed a bad recipe
> for the electrolyte in the caps, eg the Ethylene Glycol wasn't near
> pure enough.
When you say "fed a bad recipe", didn't they actually steal it? Or
is that just an urban legend?
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-11 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-11 6:05 Increasing HZ (patch for HZ > 1000) Jean-Marc Valin
2003-12-11 7:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11 7:15 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2003-12-11 7:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11 17:18 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-11 17:33 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-12-11 18:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-11 19:14 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-11 18:35 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-12 22:08 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-12 22:57 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2003-12-12 23:18 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-12 23:40 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-13 2:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-16 3:04 ` john stultz
2003-12-16 5:20 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-12-14 1:05 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-14 4:48 ` Pat Erley
2003-12-11 7:30 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 8:25 ` Tim Schmielau
2003-12-12 8:00 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2003-12-12 22:10 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-12 22:50 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2004-01-03 18:16 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <010f01c415a4_27033d00_d100000a@sbs2003.local>
2004-04-06 13:00 ` Pavel Machek
2003-12-11 19:22 Grover, Andrew
2003-12-12 22:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-12 22:58 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-12-12 23:45 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-13 8:36 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-12-12 15:52 Vincent Legoll
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