Has your motherboard been playing up lately? If you bought a new mobo or new PC in 2002, it could contain a cowboy part which has caused its failure, or will do so in the future.
Step forward the guilty component, a humble aluminum electrolytic capacitor. But this is not your everyday cock-up, oh no, but the fault of a "a mistake in the stolen formulation of the electrolyte in a capacitor".
Yes corporate espionage is to blame! The specialist newswite Spectrum IEEE, run by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has uncovered a cracking story of skullduggery and ineptitude.
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