Re: Bad motherboard or CPU?

Sounds like a hell of a problem!! Another thing for you to know!! ASUS motherboards have a 3 year warranty!!! Call them 510-739-3777 X 5105 they will ask you your SN for the board and will know instantly what you need to do to RMA the board. I just went through it. PAINLESS unfortunately i missed my warranty period by 8 days!! GRR

Re: Why desolder the old?

Well I did the bad thing!! I have ordered some capacitors from chris and I havent gotten them yet. I had some important work to do on my computer (TWL Match) and I had to get my board running until I get the new caps. I took 2 6.3 2200's out of a spare 350watt psu and soldered them in place of the junk 6.3 3300's. I didnt clean the holes just heated them up and pulled out the old, heated again and slid in the used ones. Motherboard works great and now we are 23 in TWL 2vs2. If anyone plays Americas Army you can hang with us at [url]www.nawclan.org[/url]...

Re: sm lytics in lcd monitors getting baked dry in 2 years!

my lcd monitor is only a white screen now and I cant get it to come back. Im going to try to RMA it or is there an easier fix?

Re: Why desolder the old?

I have a feeling im going to suck A$$. But i have an old board that IM going to practice on first....you have no idea how thankful I am that I found this site because I was blind going in and now I have some light on the subject. Thanks alot guys!

Re: Why desolder the old?

Well if not desoldering the old one is a problem...i have a question along those lines....why do I have to clean out the solder in the hole. Why cant I just heat up the solder pull the capasitor out and reheat the solder and put in the new capasitor..or does it not work like that.. You'll have to excuse my noobness.. i know you just talked about it but if the solder is hot it should just slide through causing no stress right?

Re: Can a motherboard virgin (me!) replace my bad caps?

I am myself a noob at this. I have the infamous A7N8X Deluxe board and I have 2 Bad Caps and recieving the dreaded blue screen of death. I have alittle background in soldering from my radio shack days...believe me nothing to be proud of just a bunch of old people who broke the IR led on their tv remote. But I have contacted chris and he is sending me 4 caps. I have printed out the how to guide and found a few other people that posted how they did it. Any thing i should do first....any info would be great...thanks Keith Gol...