I read an article in the August issue of "Computer Shopper" that stated
that the cheaper aluminum capacitors would cause the computer to overheat.
These PC's were described as having *random* rebooting problems.
Cherri Snell

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>>         Hi.
>>         Capacitors are for filtering voltages, and specially filtering
>> due to sudden currents inside chips on normal functioning. However,
>> they are not too critical. Their use on timing functions is probably
>> almost null in today's mobos's oscillators.
>>         Don't worry too much (but worry about PB).
>> >
>> > Packard Bell POS P75, Win95a
>> >
>> > An article in "Microtimes" said that cheap motherboards use aluminum
>> > electrolytic capacitors instead of tantalum capacitors.  It said that
>> > the "cheaper capacitors which would degrade over time and no longer
>> > supply correct voltages and correct timing to the CPU."
>> >
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