Re: Anyone else seen this.

The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc,uk.d-i-y
Organization A little, after lunch
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On 04/07/2026 23:19, jkn wrote:
>> And.. change the mostly useless power supply Capacitors!..
> 
> Is this actually true, specifically referring to Draytek routers? Or 
> just to Set Top Boxen (in which case I probably agree)
> 
No. And in fact mostly today capacitors are not as prone to failure as 
they once were.

There was a period where bad chemistry was taking out millions of them. 
They have all gone


> I have previously looked for reports of such problems with Draytek kit, 
> and found none. I also took a look inside my previous Draytek router 
> (when I was getting ADSL issues, see uk.d-i-y thread passim) and all the 
> caps looked good (visual only check, I agree)

The Draytek self-reboot is well documented. PSU degradation or firmware 
bit rot seems the most common cause

I have re-flashed the firmware and it has stayed up since.

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