Dell's w/o OS - where?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 16:09:51 -0400,
  "George N. White III" <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> 
> Are those Super Micro's dying of leaking electrolytic capacitors?
> I've seen too many leaky or bulging capacitors.  One P-III system 
> refused to boot after a few capacitors showed signs of bulging tops.  I 
> replaced the system board and set the old one aside.  I recently took 
> another look -- after a year of sitting idle, all the electrolytics were 
> bulging, which suggests an aging process with a finite lifespan.

Note that there was a spike in problems with capacitors a few years ago after
a company bungled their industrial espionage and produced a bunch of
capacitors with a bad electrolyte formula. By the time they found out the
formula was bad, a lot of motherboards using them had been produced.