On 25 Jan 2004 08:33:59 -0500, (Al Dykes) wrote:

ISTR it was one bad batch of parts from a company using materials they
may have known were bogus. One way or another, the mobo assembly lines
found a source of good parts quickly.

The inventory pipline from the parts manufacturers to the board
manufacturers, to the dealer is very lean these days. Nobody keeps
warehouses full of stuff anymore.

As it happens, today we had a MB in an IBM server replaced the second
time around due to exploding capacitors (server is 1.5 yr old, 1st
replacement ~1 year ago). However, in this case, the problem was
probably that the first replacement motherboard itself might have been
one from the old batch as the original.
I agree that that batch of caps are very unlikely to be in a brand new
MBs.