> > Maybe some dried up electrolytic capacitor making it > > senstive to small power drop outs, like in: > > http://defiant.wavecon.de/~alex/dvbbug/dvbbug.html > > If manufacturers would shift to (the more expensive) tantulum > capacitors, then that would be of no problem i believe.. > > But the problem was seen on new cards as well. Electrolytic capacitors < > than a year old, rarely dry up, but no one can say for sure how old the > capacitor has been there with the manufacturer. :-( It might not even be a capacitor on the card - it could be the power supply or motherboard itself :( I've got one of those mini-itx boards, and it has no end of problems - doesn't always turn on - the ethernet port sometimes just doesn't work for no good reason - have to unplug it and leave it unpowered for a couple of minutes.
