After weeks of reading around posts and searching on the forum I was successfully able to recap this MB I got from a friend bound to the garbage.
This Is my success story.
First it was all full of dust, Case fan and CPU fan produced almost no air flow. Than I noticed two of the three rams out of place. Cleaned the case, MB and reseated Ram. To my surprise it powered up and it even posted but no beep
Shortly after display, maybe 5 min, a lot of garbled characters appeared. Turned off.
Inspecting the board found 2 Bulged green caps near the ram modules.
Then took off the ram modules and found this heavy damage on one of the modules.
This one is a 1gb module, the other was a 512bm module that did not survived either but was not burned like that. The only survivor was a 256MB module.
I replaced all the caps as described on one post (Thanks Forum)
2- 6.3v 820uf Near the ram *Rubycon MBZ
2- 6.3v 1500uf these where replaced with 10v 1500uf *Rubycon ZLH
5- 16v 1000uf near the CPU ( I think these are for the VRM) *Rubycon ZLH
16- 6.3v 1000uf all around the board *Sanyo CA
*I used.
Since I had no money on the board except for new caps Took off all heat sinks removed all the dried up thermal paste and re-pasted with AS5. BTW the south bridge had very little paste in it.
Experience- I followed every tip and technique and applied it to my comfort zone to perform the task. The most hard and time consuming part was clearing those holes out of solder and once done all was a breeze.
I am no novice in soldering or doing electronics but it has been my first multi layered board and of course i wanted it to work. And it did.
Board with out caps
Clean South-bridge
Clean North-brigde
Recap complete
This Is my success story.
First it was all full of dust, Case fan and CPU fan produced almost no air flow. Than I noticed two of the three rams out of place. Cleaned the case, MB and reseated Ram. To my surprise it powered up and it even posted but no beep
Shortly after display, maybe 5 min, a lot of garbled characters appeared. Turned off.
Inspecting the board found 2 Bulged green caps near the ram modules.
Then took off the ram modules and found this heavy damage on one of the modules.
This one is a 1gb module, the other was a 512bm module that did not survived either but was not burned like that. The only survivor was a 256MB module.
I replaced all the caps as described on one post (Thanks Forum)
2- 6.3v 820uf Near the ram *Rubycon MBZ
2- 6.3v 1500uf these where replaced with 10v 1500uf *Rubycon ZLH
5- 16v 1000uf near the CPU ( I think these are for the VRM) *Rubycon ZLH
16- 6.3v 1000uf all around the board *Sanyo CA
*I used.
Since I had no money on the board except for new caps Took off all heat sinks removed all the dried up thermal paste and re-pasted with AS5. BTW the south bridge had very little paste in it.
Experience- I followed every tip and technique and applied it to my comfort zone to perform the task. The most hard and time consuming part was clearing those holes out of solder and once done all was a breeze.
I am no novice in soldering or doing electronics but it has been my first multi layered board and of course i wanted it to work. And it did.
Board with out caps
Clean South-bridge
Clean North-brigde
Recap complete
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