I got a old Dell Dimension 8100 in from a friend for servicing. The system would power on for a minute max and then turn off. I'd figure I would take a look inside and look for the usual suspects of failure (CPU fan, bad caps, etc.). Upon opening the case I was pleasantly suprised to find that all the caps were quality japanese caps.
Caps on the mobo are Rubycon JXA, Oscon polymers, UCC polymers, and Sanyo's
Inside the PSU were UCC KY, Nichicon, Rubycon YXG
Was this system lucky in getting quality caps due to its age? How are the more recent Dell systems?
Caps on the mobo are Rubycon JXA, Oscon polymers, UCC polymers, and Sanyo's
Inside the PSU were UCC KY, Nichicon, Rubycon YXG
Was this system lucky in getting quality caps due to its age? How are the more recent Dell systems?
Needless to say I'm suprised that the thermal protection saved the PSU. The cheapo sleeve bearing fan was replaced with a quality sunon dual ball bearing fan.
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...
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