Capacitors are an inexpensive little component on a PC motherboard, but they can be a costly headache for manufacturers when a whole bunch of them go bad. Last week, Dell announced it was going to ...

EVGA has confirmed that a capacitor on some Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 cards could be associated with the cards crashing. A recent article by Igor's Lab about the problem has sparked complaints in ...

Failing capacitors are sending shock waves up the electronics food chain—literally. PCs are crashing and televisions and camcorders are going on the fritz, and the problem is becoming more widespread, ...

Regular readers of Hackaday are intimately knowledgeable about old electronics, and whether it’s about that old oscilloscope sitting in the pile of other oscilloscopes, or the very rare vintage ...

Ahh, unsealed court documents -- the gift that keeps on giving. Whether it’s the internal Microsoft e-mails made public in the Vista Capable case or Intel’s alleged strong-arming of computer ...

HD Electric Co.'s Cap Check line of capacitor testers are designed to identify internal problems with a capacitor or capacitor bank and have proven to be a valuable asset in maintaining both ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- Have thousands, even millions, of consumers been sold defective TV sets from a major manufacturer? That's what some attorneys say. They say Samsung sold TVs with power problems ...

Years ago, I was the studio supervisor for an AM-radio station, where part of my responsibility was to maintain the technical equipment in good operating condition. I can no longer remember the ...

After the math department at the University of Texas noticed some of its Dell computers failing, Dell examined the machines. The company came up with an unusual reason for the computers’ demise: the ...

HDE's Cap Check line of capacitor testers is designed to identify internal problems with a capacitor or capacitor bank and have proven to be a valuable asset in maintaining both pole-mounted and ...