Reply 48080 of 52811, by TrashPanda
Kahenraz wrote on 2023-02-17, 13:23:TrashPanda wrote on 2023-02-17, 13:07:Just a reminder to fellow forum goers who have a stash of Motherboards ..dont forget to give them a going over every now and again ...had to send a couple of old motherboards off to the great tech graveyard today. One was so bad that of the 2 dozen caps on the board more than half had either bloated or fully split open and leaked their shmoo.
Thankfully only one will be missed and that was the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, a nice socket 939 board which was the one with the most dead caps on it, normally I might recap but these are the small fiddly in tight places type of caps on a multi plane board so Ill replace it rather than try saving it.
If the boards have value, you can always list this fault and pass it on to other collectors. I have no problem doing these kinds of repairs, there are certainly others who can as well.
I would if it was a rare or collectable board, but Evilbay is littered with the A8N boards and the other dead board was also nothing special just one of my spare socket 370 boards, I will keep this place in mind if any of my more collectable boards hit this point. Threw out a pair of AGP cards too ..but who wants a 64bit 9200SE or a 64bit FX5200 ...better yet who would want to bother repairing them 😁 I think their performance may have actually improved with the dead caps.
Just the thought of trying to resolder a multiplane board that used lead free solder gives me nightmares, Im glad there are brave souls out there that do these repairs.