Some time ago my friend Morphy give me this board for experiments and components, maybe if I could repair it? It is a bit older one, SDRAMs and 100 or 133Mhz FSB only, but it should take AXP cpu's since SiS 730s chipset support AXP. I mainly love on the board the nicely done 3 phase Vcore
The board however did not kick in, no matter what my stepbro did or did not, so it was pronounced dead until I noticed that someone made scratch on the mobo that damaged the PSB traces, so it was immediatelly clear to me, why it did not psoting at all. The traces between chipset and ram are important and mobo will not post w/o two or more of them at all.
After reasonably hard repair work I got lucky and these traces looks like pretty well repaired to me. It is enought to patiently with the tip of blade scratch the paint from the trace big as thicker dog chair and when it shine with the cooper, then solder, solder, solder it
I was happy how the repair went well, so I pushed my stepbro to give her another try. And you will never quess what happend next. When I power up the mobo then the room was shocked (and mainly my stepbro, who run away from the board to the other end of the room) by lound crack sound and from the bottom of the there primary Vcore pre-filtering 5V rail line caps flew into air about 50 cm high column of internals of the poor G-Luxon cap.
It was so loud, that my hearing get partialy noticably lowered for some time, it was like a gunshot!
Dear G-Luxon went open, as you can see. Luckily the testing unlocked oldie AXP Barton 2500+ survived this, as well as everything else, even it took a while till the in shock turned this thing off.
Conclusion from this is - if you see even a little bit bulging G-Luxon, expect a loud booom. I know that already, this is how my Chemi-con KZG on my DFI board went to hell...
Another point - in our todays overscarred world from "terrorists" - what do you think it happen, when cap with such loud boom explode into your notebook when you fly into commercional jet? Hell, you might even get shoot
So, these there imput G-Luxon caps 2200uF 6.3V I exchanged for Samxon GC 2200uF 10V and even my stepbro did not want this thing to be turned on again, we tried it again. And - well, nothing
But I'm not the type to give up soon, so I checked on web, if the AXP is supported with oldest bios and quess what - sure it is not. It took a while till we located what exact type of M810S boards this one is - there is a LOT's of different M810S versions - so we picked this one, witch PCB matched these PSB we have in hand and when we find one, it was clear that bios update is need to work with AXP - in case no-one updated the bios.
http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Downloads...nuID=35&LanID=0
So, I tried add new battery and also flash new bios - the chip was small, modern one, 2MB size. Theoreticaly, because I won BIOS Saviour, not a rpoblem, right?
http://trodas.wz.cz/index.php?act=ST&f=14&t=288
But quess what! The chip that was used there is not supported by my favorite AWDflash tool, witch I love to use on my DFI with parameters like flash.exe hell3.bin /py/sn/LD/f/tiny/E/cc/cd/cp and simply refused to work. So I downloaded the original flashing utility, however this one refuse to work on different board and just crashed badly... Great
Now what? Oh, my stepbro Duron one!
And really - the board kicked in with Duron easily and after a flash it ran well with AXP as well! Sadly there is no overclocking past 133Mhz and it is not even possible to change the multiplier, so the Barton run instead of AXP 2500+ (166x11) as AXP 1700+ (133x11). Well, at least something
Maybe someone can hack the bios for adding the possibility of increasing at least the multiplier - the Vcore regulator sure take it, when I stuff it with Samxon GC caps
For recap you need:
9x 2200uF 6.3V d10
3x 1500uF 6.3V d10
4x 1500uF 6.3V d8 (orginally 1000uF 10V Teapos)
14x 120uF 16V+ d6 (orginally 100uF, but I proabably use Panny FM 120uF 16V caps)
15x 22uF 16V+
The board however did not kick in, no matter what my stepbro did or did not, so it was pronounced dead until I noticed that someone made scratch on the mobo that damaged the PSB traces, so it was immediatelly clear to me, why it did not psoting at all. The traces between chipset and ram are important and mobo will not post w/o two or more of them at all.
After reasonably hard repair work I got lucky and these traces looks like pretty well repaired to me. It is enought to patiently with the tip of blade scratch the paint from the trace big as thicker dog chair and when it shine with the cooper, then solder, solder, solder it
I was happy how the repair went well, so I pushed my stepbro to give her another try. And you will never quess what happend next. When I power up the mobo then the room was shocked (and mainly my stepbro, who run away from the board to the other end of the room) by lound crack sound and from the bottom of the there primary Vcore pre-filtering 5V rail line caps flew into air about 50 cm high column of internals of the poor G-Luxon cap.
It was so loud, that my hearing get partialy noticably lowered for some time, it was like a gunshot!
Dear G-Luxon went open, as you can see. Luckily the testing unlocked oldie AXP Barton 2500+ survived this, as well as everything else, even it took a while till the in shock turned this thing off.
Conclusion from this is - if you see even a little bit bulging G-Luxon, expect a loud booom. I know that already, this is how my Chemi-con KZG on my DFI board went to hell...
Another point - in our todays overscarred world from "terrorists" - what do you think it happen, when cap with such loud boom explode into your notebook when you fly into commercional jet? Hell, you might even get shoot
So, these there imput G-Luxon caps 2200uF 6.3V I exchanged for Samxon GC 2200uF 10V and even my stepbro did not want this thing to be turned on again, we tried it again. And - well, nothing
But I'm not the type to give up soon, so I checked on web, if the AXP is supported with oldest bios and quess what - sure it is not. It took a while till we located what exact type of M810S boards this one is - there is a LOT's of different M810S versions - so we picked this one, witch PCB matched these PSB we have in hand and when we find one, it was clear that bios update is need to work with AXP - in case no-one updated the bios.
http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Downloads...nuID=35&LanID=0
So, I tried add new battery and also flash new bios - the chip was small, modern one, 2MB size. Theoreticaly, because I won BIOS Saviour, not a rpoblem, right?
http://trodas.wz.cz/index.php?act=ST&f=14&t=288
But quess what! The chip that was used there is not supported by my favorite AWDflash tool, witch I love to use on my DFI with parameters like flash.exe hell3.bin /py/sn/LD/f/tiny/E/cc/cd/cp and simply refused to work. So I downloaded the original flashing utility, however this one refuse to work on different board and just crashed badly... Great
Now what? Oh, my stepbro Duron one!
And really - the board kicked in with Duron easily and after a flash it ran well with AXP as well! Sadly there is no overclocking past 133Mhz and it is not even possible to change the multiplier, so the Barton run instead of AXP 2500+ (166x11) as AXP 1700+ (133x11). Well, at least something
Maybe someone can hack the bios for adding the possibility of increasing at least the multiplier - the Vcore regulator sure take it, when I stuff it with Samxon GC caps
For recap you need:
9x 2200uF 6.3V d10
3x 1500uF 6.3V d10
4x 1500uF 6.3V d8 (orginally 1000uF 10V Teapos)
14x 120uF 16V+ d6 (orginally 100uF, but I proabably use Panny FM 120uF 16V caps)
15x 22uF 16V+
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