bergqvistjl wrote:Skyscraper wrote:Recap before tinkering any more just as the others suggest!
My guess would be that the dark shape that can be seen on the northbridge is the shadow from the trigger finger on the hand holding the camera.
No its not shadow, it really is there. would maybe attempting to affix some kind of heatsink on it help for the future?
If it's not to late.
It's not very common that bad caps leads to a dead northbridge but it does happen and when stuff looks like that it's not a good sign.
If the board diddn't smell funny when you tested it I would probably still try to recap it but dont cut the cap leads on the new caps until you tested the board though so you resuse them on another board if the northbridge turns out to be dead.
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