5 May
1999
5 May
'99
3:38 p.m.
At 10:49 PM 5/5/99 -0400, Allison J Parent wrote:
Likely a tantalum capacitor cooked. I've seen that
on various drives. often
if removed and the board cleaned up they still operate. They usually short
just hard enough that a good power supply will smoke the offending cap.
Generally if caught soon enough the no damage save for a bad cap cooked
to a crisp.
Yup, it could easily be the remains of a Tantalum cap. Weirdest smell. I
can't believe that the rest of the board could survive something like this
but hey it isn't like the thing is any good as a paper weight! Now to pull
one of the others and figure out what value cap used to live there...
--Chuck