Editing Capacitor plague (section)

===Public attention===
[[File:Brand auf Platine.jpg|thumb|right|Results of fire on a printed circuit board, caused by leaked electrolyte which [[short-circuit]]ed conductors carrying power]]

The news from the Holzman publication spread quickly on the Internet and in newspapers, partly due to the spectacular images of the failures – bulging or burst capacitors, expelled sealing rubber and leaking electrolyte on countless circuit boards. Many PC users were affected, and caused an avalanche of reports and comments on thousands of blogs and other web communities.<ref name= "Feb2003Spectrum">{{cite journal |last1= Chiu |first1= Yu-Tzu |first2= Samuel K |last2= Moore |title= Faults & Failures: Leaking capacitors muck up motherboards |journal= [[IEEE Spectrum]] |volume= 40 |issue= 2 |date= February 2003 |pages= 16–17 |issn= 0018-9235 |doi= 10.1109/MSPEC.2003.1176509 |url= https://spectrum.ieee.org/leaking-capacitors-muck-up-motherboards |access-date= 2014-08-22 |archive-date= 5 January 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180105214833/https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/leaking-capacitors-muck-up-motherboards |url-status= live |url-access= subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Paul |last1=Hales |title=Taiwanese component problems may cause mass recalls |url=http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1026911/taiwanese-component-cause-mass-recalls |date=5 November 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510135540/http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1026911/taiwanese-component-cause-mass-recalls |archive-date=10 May 2011 |url-status=dead |publisher=[[The Inquirer]] |access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.geek.com/science/capacitor-failures-plague-motherboard-vendors-551780/ |title=Capacitor failures plague motherboard vendors, GEEK, 7 February 2003 |access-date=14 December 2014 |archive-date=13 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113173058/http://www.geek.com/science/capacitor-failures-plague-motherboard-vendors-551780/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The quick spread of the news also resulted in many misinformed users and blogs posting pictures of capacitors that had failed due to reasons other than faulty electrolyte.<ref>W. BONOMO, G. HOOPER, D. RICHARDSON, D. ROBERTS, and TH. VAN DE STEEG, Vishay Intertechnology, Failure modes in capacitors, [http://www.electronicproducts.com/Passive_Components/Capacitors/Failure_modes_in_capacitors.aspx] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214165112/http://www.electronicproducts.com/Passive_Components/Capacitors/Failure_modes_in_capacitors.aspx|date=14 December 2014}}</ref>