I recently aquired a dead Gigabyte GA-8IPE775 Motherboard. It was pretty obvious to me what was wrong at first glance. One of the chokes on the VRM had gotten so hot it had started to desolder itself. After removing it from the board, the PCB was almost black under it. After testing the MOSFETs, I found that one was shorted. So, I found a scrap board which had died due to corrosion, and I scavenged a coil and a MOSFET from it. I soldered them on to this board and, surprise surprise, IT WORKS! All it needs now is a re-cap (all of the smaller 1000uF caps are KZG)
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