Re: Resurrecting VP6 Unsuccessful

Took a look around the forum for a link to TC's mod bios for the VP6, I'd like to give it a shot now that I have my board running again.

Can anyone point me in the correct direction?

Thanks!

Re: Resurrecting VP6 Unsuccessful

Okay, it took me more than a week to get back to this, but the VP6 board is back!

I'd like to close the loop on this thread. Here is what I did, I removed the board and inspected the solder joints, to my dismay, I found a few with suspect joints (I didn't think I sucked so bad at soldering). I reflowed all the cap joints and inspected again, all looked acceptable. I replaced the CMOS battery and this is when I noticed my error. I never set the CMOS Jumper back to the default setting last time, I just overlooked it several times. I...

Re: Resurrecting VP6 Unsuccessful

Thanks for your replies. TC, I'll give your suggestions a try this weekend as I will have a little more time then. I think I'll also take a look at the caps in the power supply then as well. I'll let you know how it goes (I've been spending the last several days working at a company making electronic timers and controls, and they have some sweet equipment for board repairs at their SMT machine and it makes me feel inadequate with the "hobbyist" equipment I'm using).

I'm in a bit of a need in troubleshooting an unsuccessful recap. Being new to the forum and recapping I'm hopeful there was a detail I missed and that someone can help with.

Here's the history: I've been running a VP6 with two 1.0GHz processors and 1 Gb Ram as a home server for about 3 years (not overclocked). The system had a Highpoint RocketRaid 454 card in addition to the onboard raid. I was running the OS (Windows SBS 2003 Enterprise) on 4x30Gb Maxtor harddrives in a Raid 10 configuration off the Highpoint RocketRaid card. I was running a raid stripe on 2x120Gb Segate drives...