[jarenmf]

Bad caps was a very common problem in the old days, I remember I replaced the ones on my motherboard at least twice. The classical symptom was that heating the motherboard will allow the PC to start.

[rompic]

Yes,"Capacitor plague" it was called. There's an interesting story about espionage and incomplete stolen formula in the wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague