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(2) "Note to American lefties who recoil with horror when “hicks from the sticks” want to enforce Voter ID laws in the US, and yet regard France as the epitome of Civilization and Progress: as French citizens, we cannot vote without being registered, going to our State-assigned voting station, where we will have to present our State-issued voter card and one among several State-issued national ID (national ID card, passport or driver’s license), signing on one register next to our State-issued voter number before we enter the booth and then sign another register after we slipped our ballot into the box, and, as seen in the photo, have our voter card stamped with the date of the vote(3) for each suffrage. Now what where you saying about the Police State of Texas and Arizona, again?

(3) In case you're wondering: no, we don't get one extra vote once we've filled the card. This is not Obama's election."

The Dissident Frogman

Will post pix when I can.

I bought a high end Thermaltake power supply some time ago. It was not a low end supply and I thought I'd made a decent purchase. After it died I kept it laying around for when I got ready to shovel crap out of the apartment. I decided to disassemble it and look to see if there was any reason the main board and power supply decided to die.

I found that it uses Junfu capacitors. These are so low on the list of capacitors as to be a joke. I never suspected this sort of crap for as expensive the power supply was.

Based on what I see the supply lost regulation and destroyed the main board. I didn't bother with seeing if I could salvage the processor or ram since it was old enough getting a main board for those parts was more expensive than scrapping it all and starting over. I also scraped all of the plug-in cards as I was just done with the mess.

So far my current one is doing ok but damned if I don't wish there were a device that fit between the power supply and main board to crowbar across the voltage in case the supply failed. I'd built such a device for the Commodore 64 and had a great deal of success with it. It would catastrophically destroy some supplies but the main computer would purr along with a new supply. ;)

I highly recommend the disassembly reviews of main boards and power supplies. Had that been available or if I'd bothered to look I'd not have bought this supply. If you don't see one then get out a hair dryer, screw driver and peel off the 'void warranty' tape using low heat and peer inside and get the brand off the capacitors at minimum. Google them. If the brand is suspect or you can't pronounce it assemble it, put the tape back on (or fake one up in photoslop and stick that back on) and return it.

Be exceptionally wary of any product that does not use capacitors made in Japan. Every other capacitor maker has shown themselves to be crap.

Thermaltake purepower N600 showing bad capacitors, I had to break some things and hack off some wires. There is NO WAY this allowed proper heat dissipation.

This is my mom's monitor. I replaced the (5) capacitors I marked with red dots with 1000 microfarad 35 volt 105 degree C electrolytic capacitors. I would have preferred Panasonic but went with the what I could get local Nichicon. I verified they were not the bad batch from 2005 hm and hn series. I am however leery enough to tell people to avoid them for their own use. At this point I will never use a capacitor from any source except wholly made in Japan in a Japanese plant. Taiwan and Korea are flat out worthless trash and China is disgusting crap.

Try these folk but a) know what a capacitor is b) know how to read the data off of it c) write them down d) have them make a kit that exactly fits what you have though in most cases I bump the voltage of the capacitor up and always get the higher rated 105 degree C capacitors. I intend to buy their kit when I can sit and write down all the info and have them make one up. What they list for the monitor is not exactly what is in this one so that means HP varied things yet didn't bother to change the model or revision.

The monitor is an HP EN632AA also called 376305-760

This is the store I've found. I have not done a full check out of them customer service wise but I'm happy with what I've read of how well they know their tech.
http://store.lcdalternatives.com/Repair-Kit,-HP-EN632AA,-LCD-Monitor,-Capacitors-P1660305.aspx

The monitor is https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/EN632AA.htm

The terabyte drive in 4 partitions is converted to GPT. It was not trivial as I had to do math but not as hard as I feared.

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Nope, does not work in title.

An image in the subject? It would seem not. Probably a good thing as it'd avoid LJ's built in pix blocker I think.

Ok you can embed a link in the subject. FWOOOM