First post, by winuser_pl
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I've bought the Socket 3 motherboard. It is ZIDA 4DPS model. The seller told me that he didn't checked the condition of the board but I suppose he knew that someone has already tried to fix it up.
Here is the photo of the board when I bought it:
I got this for 40 zł which is an equivalent of 11 $. As you can see there are many problems.
Here is the list of problems:
1. unpopulated L2 cache – I've already bought the chips.
2. Melted jumpers
3. missing TIP32C transistor and capacitor
4. leaked battery – someone has already removed it
5. missing two ceramic capacitors and burnt traces
6. Unpopulated tag RAM – already bought – waiting for delivery
I've already taken care of some of that problems like:
Melted jumpers – the plastic jumpers has been removed. A new jumpers will be put.
TIP32C transistor replaced, capacitor populated.
There is a problem with battery. As far as I understand the motherboard wil try to charge the battery so I should use diode.
The second problem is I don't if I can use 3V CR2032 battery?
And the final problem: there is missing a trace – see the picture. I don't know where is the start of that trace - probably one of the ceramic capacitors.
What do you guys think, will it be possible to fix it up?
PC1: Highscreen => FIC PA-2005, 64 MB EDO RAM, Pentium MMX 200, S3 Virge + Voodoo 2 8 MB
PC2: AOpen => GA-586SG, 512 MB SDRAM, AMD K6-2 400 MHz, Geforce 2 MX 400