That board is a mess.... not sure I'd have the heart for it...

Job one clean it up. Remove the caps that someone had attempted to replace and clear all the plated through holes.

I'd give the underside a really good inspection before wasting too much time on it. I see a lot of deep scratches which could be cut traces needing repair... If they are, decide if your up to it and if you can be bothered...

Then replace all the missing caps and see if it POSTs

Knowing from who it came from (I was the one to get the KT7A-RAID from the same seller, and did want to get this one too but seems you beat me to it) don't have high hopes in getting it to work.

That's one heck of a job, your going to (hopefully) fullfill here.
Seems like all caps next to the CPU-slot have been removed already and one has been replaced with a mismatched form factor.

This is how that board SHOULD have been populated:
https://www.badcaps.net/filedata/fetch?id=1879064

Have fun and (I really doo cross all my fingers!) successfully revive that thing. At least here in Germany the BE6-II was one of the first boards to fuel the BX chipset with significantly more than 100MHZ bus. Quite cult that board over here next to the "allbeknownst" ASUS P2B.

VGApocalypse wrote on 2026-02-11, 14:36:

That's one heck of a job, your going to (hopefully) fullfill here. Seems like all caps next to the CPU-slot have been removed al […]
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That's one heck of a job, your going to (hopefully) fullfill here.
Seems like all caps next to the CPU-slot have been removed already and one has been replaced with a mismatched form factor.

This is how that board SHOULD have been populated:
https://www.badcaps.net/filedata/fetch?id=1879064

Have fun and (I really doo cross all my fingers!) successfully revive that thing. At least here in Germany the BE6-II was one of the first boards to fuel the BX chipset with significantly more than 100MHZ bus. Quite cult that board over here next to the "allbeknownst" ASUS P2B.

i was able to find someone with the board! they were able to help me find all the info i needed! (also this photo is very useful! however this is the 2.0 so it might be different.) now i just need to figure out a cooling solution so i can push this Tualatin to 1.7!

Lostdotfish wrote on 2026-02-10, 20:32:

That board is a mess.... not sure I'd have the heart for it... […]
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That board is a mess.... not sure I'd have the heart for it...

Job one clean it up. Remove the caps that someone had attempted to replace and clear all the plated through holes.

I'd give the underside a really good inspection before wasting too much time on it. I see a lot of deep scratches which could be cut traces needing repair... If they are, decide if your up to it and if you can be bothered...

Then replace all the missing caps and see if it POSTs

along as the gouges aren't deep i could probably bridge them, or atleast i could try 😀

i do seem to need more info on the size and series to order from Panasonic, https://na.industrial.panasonic.com/products/ … luminum-polymer

liverygone wrote on 2026-02-16, 17:28:

i do seem to need more info on the size and series to order from Panasonic, https://na.industrial.panasonic.com/products/ … luminum-polymer

Max 8mm diameter.
Limit height to max 15mm next to slots, in your case those closest to the CPU slots, elsewhere it doesn't matter.
Pin spread is most likely 3.5mm, but can be 5mm, measure to be sure =)

The caps marked for vcore are parallel mounted to reduce ESR, and can benefit from low ESR caps.
The rest wont matter, just use quality components.