Ok, I scored this board a few days ago, traded my Asus K8N server board for it. (reference this thread for the asus: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9398)
I hate asus boards with a passion these days, and a local guy just had to have it, and offered me a Tyan s2895 K8WE, which is a much better board by far. The asus had onboard video, no PCI-X slots, and 1 PCI express. The asus would make a better server board, the Tyan would be a much better high-end workstation, which is what I wanted it for. The s2895 is a very hard board to come by, but the catch was it had bad caps......like that's going to bother me. I got the board and a few bucks along with it.
Anyway, recapped, up and running....but here's the problem....
Note the photo below of the front USB header, there's a scorch mark on the board where an SMT component was. The board works fully stable, SATA works, PATA works, rear USB works, as do the NIC's and all PS2 ports. I'm rendering a guess that the toasted spot is related to the front USB header (I haven't tested it). I have hunted high and low for a high resolution photo of one of these boards to no avail, in an attempt to identify the toasted component. There was nothing left of it besides some soot. I just cleaned the remains of it off the pads when I recapped it. The guy i got it from was no help, he said it was like that when he got it, and since the system didn't work because of the caps, he had no idea....
If anyone happens to have one of these boards, I'd love to know what that component needs to be.
Here's a pic of the scorched area. I can provide the high res if needed, but it won't help, the component is gone:
Also, it came with no I/O shield, and I even called Tyan, they don't make them anymore. None on Ebay.......so I also am in desperate need of an I/O shield for it.
Anyway, here's a few pics.... This is my first ever SLI video configuration. Here's what its specs will be when its done:
Tyan Thunder K8WE s2895
2x Dualcore Opteron 285's
8gb ECC RAM
2x nVidia 7600 GT's (those nice poly modded ones from a couple months ago)
3ware 9550SXU-8LP 8 Port SATA II RAID card W/ BBU
...and the best part: http://supermicro.com/products/chass...3TQ-865-SQ.cfm
I liked that case so much for my home 8-core system, I bought the bare case for this system. It will replace my old 5200+ dualcore system in my office.
Anyway, some pics...
I hate asus boards with a passion these days, and a local guy just had to have it, and offered me a Tyan s2895 K8WE, which is a much better board by far. The asus had onboard video, no PCI-X slots, and 1 PCI express. The asus would make a better server board, the Tyan would be a much better high-end workstation, which is what I wanted it for. The s2895 is a very hard board to come by, but the catch was it had bad caps......like that's going to bother me. I got the board and a few bucks along with it.
Anyway, recapped, up and running....but here's the problem....
Note the photo below of the front USB header, there's a scorch mark on the board where an SMT component was. The board works fully stable, SATA works, PATA works, rear USB works, as do the NIC's and all PS2 ports. I'm rendering a guess that the toasted spot is related to the front USB header (I haven't tested it). I have hunted high and low for a high resolution photo of one of these boards to no avail, in an attempt to identify the toasted component. There was nothing left of it besides some soot. I just cleaned the remains of it off the pads when I recapped it. The guy i got it from was no help, he said it was like that when he got it, and since the system didn't work because of the caps, he had no idea....
If anyone happens to have one of these boards, I'd love to know what that component needs to be.
Here's a pic of the scorched area. I can provide the high res if needed, but it won't help, the component is gone:
Also, it came with no I/O shield, and I even called Tyan, they don't make them anymore. None on Ebay.......so I also am in desperate need of an I/O shield for it.
Anyway, here's a few pics.... This is my first ever SLI video configuration. Here's what its specs will be when its done:
Tyan Thunder K8WE s2895
2x Dualcore Opteron 285's
8gb ECC RAM
2x nVidia 7600 GT's (those nice poly modded ones from a couple months ago)
3ware 9550SXU-8LP 8 Port SATA II RAID card W/ BBU
...and the best part: http://supermicro.com/products/chass...3TQ-865-SQ.cfm
I liked that case so much for my home 8-core system, I bought the bare case for this system. It will replace my old 5200+ dualcore system in my office.
Anyway, some pics...
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