It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden ...

These aluminum electrolytic capacitors are common residents on circuit boards. We may have cut one open to satisfy our curiosity of what’s inside, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we ...

As the photos show, this capacitor is fairly large, appearing like a thick chunk of paraffin wax sandwiched between two wood disks. Inside, the lead wires go to two aluminum flashing disks that ...

CRN has seen AIT’s brief against Dell and what follows is a run-down of all the things Dell allegedly did very, very wrong in the OptiPlex capacitor debacle. What led to Dell’s capacitor woes?