Originally Posted By: mlord
Okay, I had a look into the cookie-tin just now.

Yup, that particular capacitor is bulging quite a bit on top, as are about four similar ones of the same brand elsewhere in there.

I wonder how much longer I can ignore them? smile

Well, that question was answered this past week, just after I departed for a rock-climbing trip. frown

The system started crashing with various random errors, and SWMBO did her best to keep rebooting it in attempts to try and maintain internet/email access in my absence.

Now that I'm back, the hard disk has been moved to another machine to restore service -- I've actually just hooked it up via USB to a small notebook computer, along with a USB ethernet adapter to provide the second network port. Works fine!

Meanwhile, I now have to order some new caps from digikey to refurbish the mini-ITX board.

Cheers