ECS G31T-M - First Motherboard repair

[Ritalin]

Got this motherboard off e-bay for $5.00! So I figured I'd at least get the description from the post up so I don't lose it and upload pictures when it gets here. I'm hoping since it starts to work and then shuts down that it's just a part failing, so we'll see!

ECS G31T-M(1.0) LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard Not working parts only. The board looks like it is almost brand new It actually does power up, but after about 1 minute it shuts down. I replaced, cpu, memory, powersupply and still has same symptoms.don't have time to mess with it, but it might be good for warranty.

[Scenic]

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[Ritalin]

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[QUOTE=Scenic;150447]heh..

advertising my ebay account?

[Scenic]

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i just love how easy it is to find people on ebay when they copy auction texts

edit: be prepared to replace a lot of caps.
pretty much all of them are OST or TK/Toshin Kyogo or whatever it was (same thing as OST, just worse..)

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/E...d_fullsize.jpg

[Ritalin]

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i just love how easy it is to find people on ebay when they copy auction texts

[Scenic]

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sry.. 1:12am and i'm bored..

[Ritalin]

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If you're bored, problem shoot my LCD monitor I'm trying to fix

Thanks for the heads up, it will be fun! I'll probably need help on what types of caps to replace since you guys have a specific series for these things.

[Scenic]

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ugh..
just looked a little closer at the pics on the net..
typical ECS/PCChips piece of junk..

OST RLS/RLP
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/E...mages/dimm.jpg

Lelon (?) OCRZ polys
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/E...es/cpuarea.jpg

TK/Toshin Kogyo (OST subsidiary)
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/E...ages/caps2.jpg

G-LUXON
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/E...ages/caps1.jpg

[Ritalin]

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Crap.. I don't have 1800uF @ 16V... Guess I'll wait to order them till I know they're blown.

[370forlife]

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Funny I just had this motherboard about a month ago, except every cap on the thing was a Panasonic. Same symptoms, wouldn't post, but I suspect that it was killed by the Raidmax 500W power supply. The 5vsb was a bit high on it.

[Ritalin]

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Funny I just had this motherboard about a month ago, except every cap on the thing was a Panasonic. Same symptoms, wouldn't post, but I suspect that it was killed by the Raidmax 500W power supply. The 5vsb was a bit high on it.

Did you ever get it working?

[370forlife]

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Nevermind, it was a different motherboard. Very similar, but AM2+ with ATI chipset.

[turbozutek]

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Yeah, did you ever get it working?

[370forlife]

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No. Don't have any spare AM2 processors to test with and I generally do not really mess with ECS boards even with good caps.

[Ritalin]

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No. Don't have any spare AM2 processors to test with and I generally do not really mess with ECS boards even with good caps.

Ya, I HATE ECS motherboards. Only reason I'm touching it cause it's broken (surprise surprise) and it's cheap! Good thing to practice on.

[severach]

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I have the lowest available AMD processor in AM2 and 939 expressly for the purpose of testing boards. Well worth what little they cost on eBay.

[Ritalin]

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I have the lowest available AMD processor in AM2 and 939 expressly for the purpose of testing boards. Well worth what little they cost on eBay.

That's a good idea, I have a socket A, AM2, 939, just don't have a 775 and some DDR2 800 memory... which won't be cheap to get

[Scenic]

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http://cgi.ebay.com/250773990432

core-based CPUs (no prescott crap)
http://desc.shop.ebay.com/CPUs-/164/...=p3286.c0.m282

as for DDR2 test RAM.. DDR2-667 is enough. pretty much all DDR2 boards support it.
the slower ones (533/400) won't work in newer 775 boards, as they need at least DDR2-667 or they just won't POST.

http://cgi.ebay.com/280578126086

http://desc.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nk...LH_TitleDesc=1

[Ritalin]

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Here's the list of capacitors w/ pictures to follow. New camera is here and currently getting cleaned.

Electrolytic
TK - 1800uF - 16V - x3
OST (RLS) - 1000uF - 6.3V - x11
G-Luxon - 470V - 16V - x1
TEAPO - 220uF - 16V - x4
TEAPO - 100uF - 16V - x6
TEAPO - 10uF - 25V - x8
G-Luxon - 100uF - 16v

Other
FL 73EGU - 680uF - 4V - x2
7F OCRZ - 820uF - 2.5V - x2


Replacement suggestions?

[Ritalin]

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So finally had more time to play with it, got a processor and some ram for the socket 775... So when I turned it on, didn't get it to post (no beep), so I took out the ram to see if I'd get an error that way, but once again, no beeps.... Any thoughts?