Recapped my VP6 with the recap kit, didn't have any problems removing the old caps, I used solder wick (with a little flux wiped onto it) and it worked nicely. Used lacquer thinner to clean up the flux before installing new caps, cleaned up all the solder joints afterward, they all looked good, no cold solder joints, didn't get the board too hot either removing or reinstalling the new caps.
Upon first boot, it posted fine, counted all the ram, saw both CPUs, etc, but I rebooted it before it tried to load Windows and reset the cpu speed to 100x7 for a pair of PIII700s, and warm booted it. Now it won't post, no beep, cleared CMOS, same thing. Can't understand if it posted once, wonder what happened to it that it won't post again? Only thing I changed was setting the CPU speed to 100x7 and set primary display to AGP. Clearing CMOS would have reset that to PCI, and also defaulted the CPU speed to 466mhz.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
FYI, I have had quite a bit of experience in electonics repair, and also worked building motherboards and all kinds of cards for IBM AS400 and RS6000 servers, worked on the wave solder lines, SMT lines, manual build, etc so I feel that I at least have a somewhat respectable clue as to how to do this kind of work.
Thanks for reading...
Upon first boot, it posted fine, counted all the ram, saw both CPUs, etc, but I rebooted it before it tried to load Windows and reset the cpu speed to 100x7 for a pair of PIII700s, and warm booted it. Now it won't post, no beep, cleared CMOS, same thing. Can't understand if it posted once, wonder what happened to it that it won't post again? Only thing I changed was setting the CPU speed to 100x7 and set primary display to AGP. Clearing CMOS would have reset that to PCI, and also defaulted the CPU speed to 466mhz.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
FYI, I have had quite a bit of experience in electonics repair, and also worked building motherboards and all kinds of cards for IBM AS400 and RS6000 servers, worked on the wave solder lines, SMT lines, manual build, etc so I feel that I at least have a somewhat respectable clue as to how to do this kind of work.
Thanks for reading...
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