video problems in Ubuntu

[David Fletcher]

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 16:09 -0700, compdoc wrote:

> You simply have to look at their tops - no need to touch anything. Any that
> are rounded on top are bad. With the video card, you can also look for
> burned components...
> 
> Click on the pictures to see close up:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
> 

I once found one inside a wall wart that must have had a seriously
rounded bottom - it had pushed itself completely out of the board,
dragging its wires out of the solder on the other side.