Remnants of the Capacitor Plague

Do you have an old motherboard where capacitors are leaking, leaving a crystalized residue at the top of aluminum housing? Or are they bulging on the top? Then you may have a motherboard with capacitors suffering from measures of cost-cutting, industrial espionage, and incorrectly formulated electrolyte...

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00:00 Intro
00:17 Capacitor plague
01:16 ASUS P4B
02:01 PCBWay.com
02:37 Scratch
03:21 Remove capacitors
04:27 Component tester
07:21 Multimeter tests
08:06 My assumption
08:52 More investigation
12:08 What could have happened
12:35 Conclusion