You learn something new everyday
Just thought I would pass along some information I had to learn the hard way for the benefit of others.
Last week I did a successful recap of an $80 motherboard or so I thought. Well I inherited an WinPE diagnostic disc in the course of my work, so I figured I would put the board under load and really test it. It shut right off within 5 seconds!
Did another check of the caps on the board, found a faulty one with a reading of 4 ESR down by one of the PCI slots. Replaced it and the board still had booting issues! I'm thinking wth!?
So I took everything off the board tried another board and it did the same thing. Then the POST screen gives me a thermal protection error message! The board had shut down to protect itself due to excessive heat, even though I had the cooling fan right on top of it.
Anyway put some thermal compound on the heatsink, tried both boards again and they now work with no problems
The moral of this little story is if you've recapped the board and still shuts off, make sure there is fresh thermal paste on the heat sink!
Last week I did a successful recap of an $80 motherboard or so I thought. Well I inherited an WinPE diagnostic disc in the course of my work, so I figured I would put the board under load and really test it. It shut right off within 5 seconds!
Did another check of the caps on the board, found a faulty one with a reading of 4 ESR down by one of the PCI slots. Replaced it and the board still had booting issues! I'm thinking wth!?
So I took everything off the board tried another board and it did the same thing. Then the POST screen gives me a thermal protection error message! The board had shut down to protect itself due to excessive heat, even though I had the cooling fan right on top of it.
Anyway put some thermal compound on the heatsink, tried both boards again and they now work with no problems
The moral of this little story is if you've recapped the board and still shuts off, make sure there is fresh thermal paste on the heat sink!
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