Trying to diagnose a Dell Optiplex 3060 Micro that shows a "2,1" blink code -- bad motherboard I think.
This chip has some brown gunk along the side. It doesn't come off with alcohol but I am able to scrape some off. It's hard, not gooey.
Could this be fried?...
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Does this Optiplex 3060 Micro chipset look bad?
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
Oh and I'll take any screenshots you care to share, or even photos of the internals if you have them. (I always take photos of my chips, serial numbers, etc., before I close up a PITA-to-open system like this one.) -
Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
I suppose it could be random chance, though it could also be that the boards were different batches and they used slightly different parts along the way. I've seen a couple different revisions of the board, and there are both ET2203 and ET2203T models. My boards are the non-touchscreen kind. In the 2203T universe, there's a guy on youtube who (apparently) successfully upgraded his, and a guy on the Win Raid forum who had the same problems I have.
Strange thing is that these boards work perfectly...Leave a comment:
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
Man, you must have hit the silicon lottery with that ET2203 that you found! I just can't get mine to work with an SSD.
I did spring for a replacement motherboard from ebay and I'd say that it works even worse with the SSD than my original one. It took some work just to get Windows setup to recognize that the drive is present and, once it did, it never made it anywhere near 25% in the installation process.
As a last resort I tried repurposing the machine to run Ubuntu 20, but...Leave a comment:
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Re: CMR or SMR?
I did a lot of research before I bought two new 6GB NAS drives. Nobody has anything positive to say about SMR's performance or longevity. Price and capacity seem to be its main advantages but, if you're looking at a once-every-five-years purchase like a NAS upgrade, you might as well shell out a few extra bucks for the more reliable solution. Rebuilding those drives is a pain and takes forever.Leave a comment:
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
Okay, I tried the same Kingston SSD as you with no luck. Basically hangs while trying to install Windows 10 on the SSD from a USB. (Installed on a spinning HD no problem.)
So when you say "faulty controller" do you mean that the southbridge I/O chip (see pic) is bad? I can buy a new one for $10 shipped; and a buddy of mine has a full rework station.
[URL="https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Piece-New-QT09ES-SLB8Q-82801-IBM-82801IBM-AF82801IBM-BGA-Chipset/271913871350...Leave a comment:
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
Oh man I just realized that I actually did type "IR receiver" way back up there, huh. Oops. Definitely meant to say "RF" receiver!...Leave a comment:
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
Oh I agree that it's RF. What I meant by "tether" is that the RF connection is proprietary, akin to the Logitech mice and keyboards that require their "Unifying Receiver" to connect (but without the ability to take the receiver with you). You can't pair the Asus mouse or keyboard with any old Bluetooth-enabled laptop (I tried). So the mouse and keyboard go down with the ship, so to speak, upon the computer's EOL.
Also, I think that the component that looks like an IR receiver...Leave a comment:
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
Nope--proprietary. Silly to tether them to the machine like that, but that's what Asus did.Leave a comment:
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
Fun fact related to that ebay listing: The internal IR receiver for the mouse and keyboard (the ER-C21) has a standard USB interface. I found the pinout attached to an FCC filing. I removed it from my machine and used a cannibalized USB cable and a JST SH 1mm connector to make a homemade dongle so that I can use the wireless mouse and keyboard with any computer. Not pretty but it works! And it keeps a perfectly good wireless combo out of the garbage once the computer expires....Leave a comment:
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
Many thanks. That OP is me, by the way. I'm going to give it one last try with a $20 used V300 from ebay. I've never had any issues with spinning HDs in it, so hopefully it's just a finicky controller and not a faulty one. Fingers crossed!...Leave a comment:
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
Oops... wrong link above (and I can't edit my post). The first link should be:
*link: [url]https://linustechtips.com/topic/888779-older-pc-allergic-to-ssds/[/url]Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T99...to-ssds/[/url]Leave a comment:
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Re: Garbage Find: Asus ET2203T - T9900 & Memory Upgrade
@Topcat, I have the same model Asus (except that I wasn't lucky enough to find mine--I paid $800 for it). It's three desktops old at this point but I can't bear to part with it. It's useful for watching Netflix. I did the same CPU upgrade that you did, and I upgraded the wireless card. It's running Windows 10 64-bit but it chugs. I also found (miraculously) a 4GB SoDIMM for less than $20 that will put the RAM at 6GB total (won't be fully dual channel but better than just 4GB for now).
The real issue has been...Leave a comment:
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