Mainboard condensators look quite bad .....
Hi,
I was just wondering... Is it normal for a 1 year old mainboard (used WITHOUT any overclocking, VIA kt400) to have many faulty looking condensators (electrolyte condensators, those that r near the main CPU on both sides of it). I counted at least 3 that looked like their top has opened and became brownish, but nothing seems to be leaking, at least not yet.. The other 1s are still shiny, metallic in colour.
I admit that ive used the 2.4 kernel with such preferences that it drove the hardware to its peak... Now I have 2.6 kernel and mdk 10. and I decided to turn on most of the power saving features such as ACPI and processor idling features.. Do you think this would stop the corrosion before its too late???
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