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Old 26-02-2006, 10:00 AM
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Hissing - or gurgling? Sounds like a defective eletrolytic capacitor. Since manufacturing in China lots of boards use low quality and close to operational tolerance capacitors. Unfortunetly modt people just board change instead of replacing the cap'. (The caps' are used for power supply smoothing amongst other things.)

IF it is a failing cap - you can usually spot it by bulging / popped ends.
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