First post, by Kahenraz
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- l33t
I picked this motherboard up on eBay to add to my collection, which has only a few Socket 7 boards. I thought that it was particularly interesting on that it has an onboard S3 ViRGE, as well an an integrated Yamaha YMF-701B-S with OPL3 and General MIDI YMF-704-S. This makes for a great motherboard with everything you would need for a fully-featured DOS experience, with everything already integrated.
Unfortunately, the seller shipped it without removing the heatsink from the CPU socket. It detached in shipping and bounced around, knocking off a couple SMD components.
I've had this in my repair bin for a while now, and I think it's time to see if it can be repaired. Note that in the photos, the red stickers are there to help me locate damage as I find it, in the event that I set it aside for later.