I have to see insides of everything.
So first thing I do is take it apart, everything..
Some people have opened up bad caps and good caps to compare or just see the toasted plates.
When a row of caps are positioned up against a heatsink, specially in a PSU,
one side of cap is hot and one side cool.
If the cap were removed and defoiled, will it show in the burn pattern?
I would think the foil would show scorching only on the hotter side, didn't pay attention to how bad cap came out to make this comparison.
So first thing I do is take it apart, everything..
Some people have opened up bad caps and good caps to compare or just see the toasted plates.
When a row of caps are positioned up against a heatsink, specially in a PSU,
one side of cap is hot and one side cool.
If the cap were removed and defoiled, will it show in the burn pattern?
I would think the foil would show scorching only on the hotter side, didn't pay attention to how bad cap came out to make this comparison.
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
(if he is still reading BCN forums) – I got a new old stock / open box Casing Power MPT-301 PSU on eBay for $4 total. 