Little backstory:
It all started 2 years ago, when I bought this motherboard in very... very sad condition.
Seller said that it was installed in a PC, which was stored in a Balcony, which was very humid, and motherboard became... well rusty.
So, even in this condition it was, in fact, working. But it didn't had ethernet, either PCI-E or PCI wasn't working(I forgot what isn't working, as I tested it 2 years ago) and I think it was all the problems it had. I've tried to do something with it back then, but it was pointless, as I didn't had any soldering equipment and didn't had any skills yet.
So... Today I decided to finally restore it, I've already bought some parts for it some time ago(sadly not for restoration, but some missing parts from factory packaging).
Here are some pictures of it:
Rusty and crusty, in it's rawest form, after lying for 2 years
ewwww... gross...
Radiator is all corroded after years of humid balcony
Now to the sad part: First of all - chips under I/O ports got heavily coroded, and I think this is will be very hard to repair, but i don't think it's unrepairable. Also one cap got ripped of the board while I was testing it, even through i wasn't doing anything stupid, just a slight tap and it fell off... It still was working afterwards btw.
Look at that poly cap ! Jeez, what even happend to it?!
This is the worst of the whole board - are behind 2 USB and Ethernet ports, it's heavily corroded, all parts are looking very gross here, also look at polycaps near them, they are just dead... Idk what the heck happend to them, but this looks terrible, even worse then leaked out electrolytes...
This project is ongoing, and it's only a preview, I've already done some things to it, but it's still at the start... I think I need to find someone with Ultrasonic cleaner and Solins US(Russian copy of VIGON® US) cleaner, to clean this board out of main corrosion, as it will make huge progress.
It all started 2 years ago, when I bought this motherboard in very... very sad condition.
Seller said that it was installed in a PC, which was stored in a Balcony, which was very humid, and motherboard became... well rusty.
So, even in this condition it was, in fact, working. But it didn't had ethernet, either PCI-E or PCI wasn't working(I forgot what isn't working, as I tested it 2 years ago) and I think it was all the problems it had. I've tried to do something with it back then, but it was pointless, as I didn't had any soldering equipment and didn't had any skills yet.
So... Today I decided to finally restore it, I've already bought some parts for it some time ago(sadly not for restoration, but some missing parts from factory packaging).
Here are some pictures of it:
Rusty and crusty, in it's rawest form, after lying for 2 years
ewwww... gross...
Radiator is all corroded after years of humid balcony
Now to the sad part: First of all - chips under I/O ports got heavily coroded, and I think this is will be very hard to repair, but i don't think it's unrepairable. Also one cap got ripped of the board while I was testing it, even through i wasn't doing anything stupid, just a slight tap and it fell off... It still was working afterwards btw.
Look at that poly cap ! Jeez, what even happend to it?!
This is the worst of the whole board - are behind 2 USB and Ethernet ports, it's heavily corroded, all parts are looking very gross here, also look at polycaps near them, they are just dead... Idk what the heck happend to them, but this looks terrible, even worse then leaked out electrolytes...
This project is ongoing, and it's only a preview, I've already done some things to it, but it's still at the start... I think I need to find someone with Ultrasonic cleaner and Solins US(Russian copy of VIGON® US) cleaner, to clean this board out of main corrosion, as it will make huge progress.
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