I had one box that never ran right from when I first built it. I reinstalled Windows many, many times, checked everything over and over and nothing ever worked right on it. I'd built it to do video and audio capture but never could keep it working long enough to get anything done. Files would get corrupted, the Windows installation was screwed up, it was not at all reliable.
It finally crapped out completely in the middle of us building our house and right after I'd had knee surgery so I had no time to do anything with it. I took it to my local computer guy. First thing he found was that every capacitor on the mobo was swollen and some were leaking nasty orange crud. So he put in a new mobo which meant a new CPU and new memory. It still wouldn't run right. He finally switched out the power supply and everything was great.
Out of curiosity he opened the power supply only to find that every capacitor inside it was also swollen, some leaking nasty orange stuff.
Yeah, the Capacitor Plague began around 2002: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
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