14 Oct
2012
14 Oct
'12
10:27 a.m.
On 14/10/12 12:55 PM, Mouse wrote:
Just recently, at work, we had three flatscreens which were "dead". I
opened them up and saw bulging caps in the power supplies. I
Yep, I fixed TEN that way last year (i.e. every single one presented).
It probably "got slow" or "got
viruses" and, as such, needed to be
put in the trash.
Yep... and I think a lot of PCs that get tossed are probably
just
overheating due to being choked with dust. resurected one by just replacing that cap. (The
others are pending my
getting parts; my collection of parts didn't have enough to fix more
than the one.)
Most people would have tossed them. Heck, work was going to until I
said "hey, let me open that up and have a look...".
Words fail to describe the wrongness of this wastage. Absent the caps,
these things certainly have a 10+ year lifespan...
Fortunately, this workplace isn't totally braindead about such things
and thought my fixing them was actually a good thing.
My current workplace still uses four of the fixups.
--T
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