Probably just a typical variant that looked better to english eyes. There's tons of letters like that spelled in various ways in other countries. Try getting a single spelling for khadafi from libya, for instance.
Doesn't sound promising, but if the capacitor is big enough to identify and replace, you could try that first. I redid many caps on my monitor successfully, brought it back to life.
I've never seen an open flash drive though, dunno how tiny those are. They cost nickles and dimes.
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