Sunday, July 13th, 2008 17:01:14  IC failure

A year or so ago, I lost my BT878-based 4-port video capture card, apparently to lightning. The card was connected to a cheap black-and-white camera outside my house, intended for security monitoring purposes. When the card failed, it stopped showing up in 'lspci' and the box was otherwise fine, so I didn't bother taking out the card. That box was decommissioned about 6 months ago, and I finally took it apart this week, revealing this: