Help with Asus P4C800-E

[Uranium-235]

Re: Help with Asus P4C800-E

that does look bad but i'm not sure thats the reason why. do you know if your ram is good. usually bad bios checksums can be due to a bad stick

that looks like a diode directly in line with your firewire. don't use it

[TBoneit]

Hello All

If anyone can help with the P4C800-E motherboard

It Throws GPFs when trying to install windows, sometimes it reports the bios is corrupt

After pulling it out and looking at it carefully I have spotted where the problem is. There is a burned spot next to the Firewire port.
Does anyone know what was there and suggestions on how to fix it? It has P4 3.4Ghz CPU so it is decent for many things and it would be nice to get it working again. I do not mind killing that Firewire port so if I can fix it by unsoldering something there that would be OK too.

It comes in a nice aluminum case with 400Gb and DVDRW so getting it working would be nice. If I can get it working, adding a $100 approx cost BluRay burner and I could use it to backup data files off of other computer drives over the network. Gigabit of course, I can't believe I am using eight ports out of nine in a simple home network, Oh well.

Thanks for any suggestions
RT

FWIW those were the best pictures my old Sony 2Megapixel camera produced.