A few years ago I built a system for a friend and about a year ago his MB started giving him fits so I put a new one in out of the few 775 boards we could still find, Any way I held onto the board, A Biostar but forget what model but anyway I was going through my stock of parts and came across the board and took a closer look and seem to have found the issue. One of the caps is bubbles up that go around the CPU and since I LOVE to tinker and do have enough parts to actually build an entire PC Grant it not a great rig but non the less an entire PC I figure I may try to replace the capacitor and see if I can get that thing to run for the fun of it. For parts I have laying around are
4 gigs DDR2 ram
a number of old GPU's
about 4 old towers
4-5 200-320 gig HD's
a few off brand PS
and tons of old cd drives.
A core 2 duo 6400
Now the big question, Where would be a good place to get a replacement cap once I ID what it is? Here is a pic of the puffed up topped cap. Now before any one warns me against NOT doing this LOL All this stuff could go Poof in a cloud of flaming poop and I would not be bothered. Just want to see if my soldering skills are up to this and who knows, Might end up with a beater system or one to donate to some kid without a system. For soldering I have a Weller WES51 soldering station so I can control the heat and use a fine tip also. Looking a little closer it's a 1000uf 6.3V on the other side of it.
Dauntae
4 gigs DDR2 ram
a number of old GPU's
about 4 old towers
4-5 200-320 gig HD's
a few off brand PS
and tons of old cd drives.
A core 2 duo 6400
Now the big question, Where would be a good place to get a replacement cap once I ID what it is? Here is a pic of the puffed up topped cap. Now before any one warns me against NOT doing this LOL All this stuff could go Poof in a cloud of flaming poop and I would not be bothered. Just want to see if my soldering skills are up to this and who knows, Might end up with a beater system or one to donate to some kid without a system. For soldering I have a Weller WES51 soldering station so I can control the heat and use a fine tip also. Looking a little closer it's a 1000uf 6.3V on the other side of it.
Dauntae
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