{"id":209,"date":"2013-09-13T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T03:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/?p=209"},"modified":"2015-03-28T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T23:38:07","slug":"im-surprised-this-box-still-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/2013\/09\/im-surprised-this-box-still-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m surprised this box still runs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve dealt with the capacitor plague. I recently inherited this elderly (1.8GHz Pentium 4, 1GB SDRAM, 40GB hard drive) box from a friend who is now happily rocking out with a new computer powered by a much more modern and power-friendly dual-core AMD CPU. Naturally, the first thing I did (after cackling and rubbing my hands together with glee) was to open the case and shove the ribbon cables aside. Oh. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised it still runs. In fact, as far as I can tell, it runs as steady as a rock, although how a rock can run is beyond me. (After all, a rock has no legs.) Of course, if it had been some of the larger caps near the CPU, it probably wouldn&#8217;t be running very long at all.<\/p>\n<p>Time to pull out memtest86+ and prime95.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/caps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Capacitor Plague\" src=\"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/caps-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"caps\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;When Caps Go Bad&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve dealt with the capacitor plague. I recently inherited this elderly (1.8GHz Pentium 4, 1GB SDRAM, 40GB hard drive) box from a friend who is now happily rocking out with a new computer powered by a much more modern and power-friendly dual-core AMD CPU. Naturally, the first thing I did (after &#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/2013\/09\/im-surprised-this-box-still-runs\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comptech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}