Anyone hear about "bursting capacitors"

[wicked1]

I've had the misfortune of seeing a few go off over the years, All of the burst capacitors I've seen to date are in PC POWER Supplies.
When they go off they can sound like a Pistol Shot. And despite thier thin metal casings they can leave rather deep dents in the thick metal power supply caseing.
if you were using your pc without a case cover and a motherboard capacitor exploded they can easily blind you if hit in the eye.

sometimes they just Fizz and go up in an acrid black or blue smoke .

Regards,

Wicked1

[mrenaud]

The story I heard was that an engineer left one company to start his own and got the formula wrong.

Heard the same thing.......I found some pictures of bad capacitators and my board looks exactly like the pics. So replacement on the way..

Btw my motherboard that went was a WinFast K7.