Hello All,
I recently received an Achieva Australia V845SX motherboard .... the board turned out to be an OEM PC Partner motherboard.
Well it has a VIA P4X266E Northbridge and 8377A Southbridge ( I'll recheck it later to make sure of south bridge). It runs off SDRAM , has 5 PCI slots, an AGP 4X slot and onboard VIA 1611A audio.
I took it off a person i knew who runs a mechanic garage and has left this computer on 24hrs for the last 2 years or so, he had complained it had crashed 20 times a day in Windows XP and so he got quite teed off with it, and decided to buy a new computer, which was a P4 3.2GHz and a Asus P5P800 motherboard..... quite a waste for an office computer.... lol.
Luckily i picked this board back from him after i called him to check out a few other issues, only to find a distressed mechanic on the phone who went nuts after he thought he lost all his files because this comp crashed; he eventually recovered his files after using the windows repair setup.
When i got it off him it was complete with 256MB Nanya SDRAM , Intel Celeron 2Ghz CPU and an Asus/ nVidia MX200 32MB AGP card.
Would this board be worth saving or should i just let it go? , i've got the correct 12.5mm Hitano EXR Low ESR, 3300uf caps to replace the 9 bulging 10mm 3300uf caps around the VRM and a few 1000uf to replace the bulging RAM caps. As far as i can see here, the MOSFETs are fine, no burn , no charing marks. The northbridge is probably fine because the damn thing still boots into BIOS.
Im just hesitant because replacing 26 caps or so is going to be a pain especially if you dont have any solder removing tools and the only option is stuffing a new cap in while heating old solder.... looks like that gootwick desoldering braid doesnt work at all !! .
Thank You.
I recently received an Achieva Australia V845SX motherboard .... the board turned out to be an OEM PC Partner motherboard.
Well it has a VIA P4X266E Northbridge and 8377A Southbridge ( I'll recheck it later to make sure of south bridge). It runs off SDRAM , has 5 PCI slots, an AGP 4X slot and onboard VIA 1611A audio.
I took it off a person i knew who runs a mechanic garage and has left this computer on 24hrs for the last 2 years or so, he had complained it had crashed 20 times a day in Windows XP and so he got quite teed off with it, and decided to buy a new computer, which was a P4 3.2GHz and a Asus P5P800 motherboard..... quite a waste for an office computer.... lol.
Luckily i picked this board back from him after i called him to check out a few other issues, only to find a distressed mechanic on the phone who went nuts after he thought he lost all his files because this comp crashed; he eventually recovered his files after using the windows repair setup.
When i got it off him it was complete with 256MB Nanya SDRAM , Intel Celeron 2Ghz CPU and an Asus/ nVidia MX200 32MB AGP card.
Would this board be worth saving or should i just let it go? , i've got the correct 12.5mm Hitano EXR Low ESR, 3300uf caps to replace the 9 bulging 10mm 3300uf caps around the VRM and a few 1000uf to replace the bulging RAM caps. As far as i can see here, the MOSFETs are fine, no burn , no charing marks. The northbridge is probably fine because the damn thing still boots into BIOS.
Im just hesitant because replacing 26 caps or so is going to be a pain especially if you dont have any solder removing tools and the only option is stuffing a new cap in while heating old solder.... looks like that gootwick desoldering braid doesnt work at all !! .
Thank You.
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