First post, by bofh.fromhell
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So my recently aquired KA7 turns out to be worse then I though.
Not only are almost all caps bulging and/or leaking, I also found other damage that could possibly stop my little project altogether.
When I removed the chipset heatsink, I found this nasty thing:
I can't really see if its deep enough to damage the traces.
There seems to be atleast 1mm or so before guaranteed damage.
Could use some input on this.
Regardless I spent some time documenting what caps it uses (really paranoid about putting the correct caps where they should be =).
Leaving it here in case someone else wants to do a similar operation.
Or if someone wants a high res pic of the KA7, wich is lacking ATM according to img search.
Bask in my paint skills puny mortals !
So the project is halted until I decide if I want to spend the time (and money) putting new components on a possibly fatally damaged motherboard.
And I really wanted a pristine KA7 =/