Fixed a busted power supply in my own workshop after 3 hours of head scratching

I was trying to get an old HP server running for a homelab project and the thing just wouldn't power on. Turned out a bulging capacitor on the PSU board was causing a short, but I spent way too long chasing a phantom fault on the motherboard first. Swapped in a new 470uF cap I had sitting around from a kit I got at Fry's back in 2019 and it fired right up. Anyone else keep old parts drawers full of random caps for that exact moment?

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baker.ben4d ago

Heard a guy on a podcast say bad caps are the number one reason old gear dies. He called it the "capacitor plague" from the early 2000s. Looks like you got hit by it too.

tyler1764d ago

Nah, I've got old gear from the 80s that still works fine...

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