Reply 20 of 23, by Yuuker
wrote:Unfortunately, there also appears to be signs of damage from the original battery leaking. Even though it may not look terrible on the surface, the corrosion will slowly eat away at vias and internal traces. My guess is the exploding cap was a coincidence and the real cause of flakiness is probably due to corrosion damage.
If you want a trouble free 486, any board with soldered on NiCad/NiMh batteries should be considered suspect no matter how clean they look. Not the best news, but I'd suggest chalking this board up as a learning experience and looking for another motherboard that came with a coin cell from the factory.
Thats news to me. I'm familiar with that basic corrosion around the battery holder looks like, but i couldn't really spot that on this board.
What else should i be looking for? Is it how dark and miss-colored the mobo looks?