First post, by Eep386
Got this PC CHIPS motherboard today in the mail. Seller claimed it was totally dead, no POST codes on a diagnostic card.
Nothing seemed wrong at all upon visual inspection until I tried moving some of the pins on the CHIP 6 and CHIP 7 labeled ASICs, and found a large number of lifted pins.
Reflowed the pins, and got a successful POST on the first try. 😁
PC CHIPS boards, in my experience, seem to love growing loose pins. Guess their wave soldering equipment ran too cold or something back in the day.
It's still not yet 100% finished as some of the pins on the SIMM slots are a little rusty, but this is encouraging progress at least.
The whole board:
Detail on the ASICs, maybe you can just barely make out the resoldered pins:
Rev: 2
The BIOS:
Life isn't long enough to re-enable every hidden option in every BIOS on every board... 🙁