First post, by tony359
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Hi all
I have acquired this... D-YING (LOL!) motherboard as "faulty". When I received it it showed the usual battery leak corrosion. The BIOS VCC socket was so corroded that it had broken. I bent it a bit and the MB booted up fine. Cool!
So I washed the board as I usually do (It's a professional fluid designed for PCBs which works like a charm and removes corrosion and oxidation) and then replaced the bad sockets. As I usually do, I take all precautions such as ESD protection and rinse the board with distilled water when done. Then it dries for a day or two before I power it up again. I never had an issue to be honest.
Unfortunately, the MoBo does not boot up anymore now.
This is what I have done/noticed
- There is no BEEPS, so that tells me the CPU does not talk to the BIOS or it does not initialise somehow.
- There is no activity on Address/IO lines besides a short pulse when I power up (like a square wave?) but then nothing.
- I see the clock on the CPU but it's 50Mhz and the CPU is an AMD 386 DX 40Mhz?
- I removed the sockets and check every pin for continuity, following the traces and I did not find anything
- As far as I can see, everything is getting it's VCC
- I've checked the traces where the battery used to be and so fare they are ok
- I see a RESET pulse on the CPU happening, even though it seems to get high properly and then "slowly" going LOW.
- I've tried reading the BIOS chip with my programmer: it reads but I do not have a way to check if it's somehow corrupted?
I'll keep testing. But I was wondering if anybody on this forum has any input for me. It's a bit frustrating that the board was working and now it's not...
Thank you!
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