On 12/08/2013 03:31 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > You mean it was rotting just sitting on a shelf? Perhaps surprisingly, systems of that age *can* fairly literally rot. There were a number of Taiwanese electrolytic capacitor manufacturers that "borrowed" a partial recipe from a Japanese company: One that was unfortunately missing an important component that kept the paste from eating the capacitor from inside out. It often initially manifested as system instability. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I lost a couple of motherboards to it. -- Benjamin Franz