I remember opening my Centris 610, back when I was testing different hard drives out on it. One thing I would always notice is like you said, it's really hard to tell which components are which. This Centris 610 has been in my family my whole life (in fact, it's just as old as me), and the logic board is in awesome condition. But I can't ever tell which ones are the capacitors. I saw several silvery cylindrical 'nubs' on the board, and I always assumed those must be capacitors--but they're not at all like the ones in a Compact Mac, or...well, any other computer I've opened.

And now you guys are saying that the capacitors look like resistors--does anyone know if there's a particular reason why the components are so confusing?

-Apostrophe