Not that I'm aware of

Are there are visible signs of capacitor leakage and/or bulging ? Capacitors that look OK might still be bad, but if they look bad, they are.

Also, the brand and series of the capacitors can provide hints, even in the absence of visual failures.

I can't see an leakage, let me add some pics

Edit: the other two pics are too big and cant be compressed under 2mb

schlang wrote on 2025-07-15, 17:47:

I can't see an leakage, let me add some pics

Edit: the other two pics are too big and cant be compressed under 2mb

I can see a spec of dust or something across the legs of the cache chip. Maybe clean up the area with some alcohol and try again. You can also try cooling the chip to see if the problem goes away (if it wouldn't be the first issue)

Yeah, a good wash never makes things worse.
Remove battery though.

qtips and isopropyl alcohol you guys say?

I used a dishwasher with no soap on many things. Especially when I was learning fixing gpus ~2020. Sometimes just handwash with dish soap and a toothbrush.
Water is "the universal solvent" so my theory in many cases was that the very very mild "acid" action in many cases removed invisible tin whiskers (forget name) which grow on lead free solder.
Several gpus fully revived, zero got worse.

No battery, dry properly, you'll be fine.

Dendrites!
The old VHS memory gets there eventually.

myne wrote on 2025-07-17, 01:16:

Dendrites!
The old VHS memory gets there eventually.

Tin solder whiskers ?

Yes. Electronic stalagmites/tites

Update: since it's my spare board it has been without power for a while and I also removed the battery.
The system complained all settings are gone, but so is the CRC error.

I'm confused but I'm not unhappy.

Huh?

Your file copy crc errors are gone after removing the battery?

The only way that can make sense is that some bios setting was overcooked.

Yea I'm just as confused. Maybe something copied or overwritten during/after a bios update that is now finally gone