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Originally Posted by barry12345
For your apparent fault condition the above suggestion is well worth an attempt. Chances of it solving the problem are good. A time constant type circuit is very dependent of the capacitor in it.
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It's unlikely that the capacitors themselves are used as timing devices, but if they're used as filters or decoupling capacitors, their failure will result in erratic operation of the timer circuit they're attached to, essentially causing rapid reset of the digital circuitry or faking the chip into being "overclocked", thus the abbreviation of the time limits.