Originally Posted By: natenkiki2004
I agree. I've seen solid-state capacitors fail. My point was, if it ONLY has those, chances are it was made well after that whole Chinese knock-off capacitor plague. The older computers, especially HP, from the early to mid 2000's were horrible for that. Just about any one of them you can open up these days and find they're leaking out.
You CAN fix them but it's definitely not worth pulling the motherboard out, making a list, ordering capacitors, soldering them in and putting it back together for a mediocre computer that a $120 tablet would out-perform.
There are 2 views to this: (1) These are not knockoff capacitors but legitimate, but the formulation is in-question; (2) OE manufactuers of computer mobo resort to using these capacitors in large quantities (such as Foxconn --- Acer division, etc.) and are well aware of the potential shortfalls of these chinese-made capacitors; but resort to nickel and diming to death on their side.
Ever open up a high-end Dell rackmount server (assembled by Foxconn also)? They too, have Panasonic, Nichicon and/or Sanyo OSCon capacitors within, but proper operational margin to last considerably longer w/o catastrophic failures.
Lastly: I wouldn't commit to buying a cheep "hipstreet" tablet or whatever, for what you pay is really what you get, period.
Q.
I don't particularly like/enjoy replacing e-caps on multi-layered mobos, citing the additional tools required to do the work properly, with minimal damage. (so far I have damaged a couple of otherwise functional mobos because of the multilayered PCB heating challenges)