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Ok, the inside out part happened after it exploded... but I just found out why a friends Epox MVP3G5 (which used to be mine until I upgraded a long while back and gave it to him) decided it suddenedly was unable to run a K6-2 550 at more than 450 without the voltage sagging down to terminally low levels.
He had recently upgraded to a Duron 800 system, and was giving another friend some spare parts. He pulled out a box of stuff, and I recognized my old "reliable" MVP3G5, but quickly decided it was a damn good thing that we had given it away... one voltage regulator capacitor had totally fragged, and most of the others were obviously ruptured and leaky. The wiring on one of the torroidial transformer thingys (not sure if they're chokes or what) was blackened from overheating, and the paint on the ferrite core had burned and melted off. The amazing thing was, it still worked!
He had recently upgraded to a Duron 800 system, and was giving another friend some spare parts. He pulled out a box of stuff, and I recognized my old "reliable" MVP3G5, but quickly decided it was a damn good thing that we had given it away... one voltage regulator capacitor had totally fragged, and most of the others were obviously ruptured and leaky. The wiring on one of the torroidial transformer thingys (not sure if they're chokes or what) was blackened from overheating, and the paint on the ferrite core had burned and melted off. The amazing thing was, it still worked!
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