Blown capacitors on a NVIDIA GeForce 7600. The capacitors did their job and vented safely but are no longer useful. Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37prime/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Tag Archive: explode
Oct
29
Regulator failure causes capacitor to explode
Regulator next to capacitor fails and causes massive capacitor explosion. Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/
Oct
29
IC on cable modem destroyed by lightning strike to cable line
Lightning struck the cable line on this cable modem. Damage shown is part of the PHY, along with damage not visible to two of the resistors that came from the ethernet port. Credit: http://www.kevtris.org/