Re: My first time ever soldering! :P

Thanks for all the comments guys! I've always been a DIY kinda guy but I won't lie, I was a lil worried when I put the card in and turned the power on for the first time that it would smoke! lol.... In fact I wouldn't even plug my monitor in until I knew it successfully posted and no caps blew :P. I learned a lot in school (A+, Network+, MSCE, CCNA & CCNP certified) but they never taught me how to do this, haha. Thanks to your website and a bunch of videos on youtube though, I managed to figure it out and not set my house on fire........

So it turns out the video card in my file server (secondary PC) died. I did some research online and it turned out that my particular model used cheap #@$%ing capacitors that were notorious for blowing up.. yes, they literally blew up and spewed chemicals all over the place. SO.... I watched an hours worth of youtube vids on "how to solder", spent $7 on 10x new capacitors and went to work. Conclusion: IT WORKED!!!

I really needed a 3rd hand to do this job but since I was alone I had to innovate :P...