First post, by stamasd
I'm working on restoring a Gigabyte GA-486VS Rev.4 motherboard that was badly damaged by a leaking battery. I have a suspicion that some traces on it may have been completely corroded, and am looking for pictures of the motherboard area around the battery/keyboard connector to compare. I do have another GA-486VS motherboard but it's revision 8, and there are major differences between the revisions in the affected area so I can't use that for reference.
I have done some pretty extensive internet searches and all I can find are pictures of revisions 7 and 8, none of which help me.
If you have an older revision of this motherboard, in particular revision 4, would you kindly take pictures of the area around the battery - keyboard connector - keyboard controller - first SIMM slot and post here? That would help me tremendously. And even if you have other revisions of the motherboard (except rev. 7 and 8, of which I've found enough pictures) those may help too.
Any help much appreciated.
FWIW here are pictures of the motherboard I'm working on.
The last picture is after desoldering the keyboard connector and removing the keyboard controller from its socket.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O