Re: Two MSI 6163 Pro cap problems...

So... My second recap was not so successful either.
This second time I managed to change all the caps in half the time with better soldering results. But I guess that my working place is not so ESD friendly or something.

This time the board worked for 15 minutes. I changed some settings in the BIOS and fired up memtest86. The board just stopped responding.

After a reboot the board went dead. All the diagnostic leds go red, which is the first stage of the booting. There it just stops in this dead state for...

Re: Two MSI 6163 Pro cap problems...

I can't find anything visibly wrong with this mainboard.
I'll give up with this one and recap my other mainboard this weekend.
First I have to make a plan B. I need to decide what to buy if my second recap goes wrong.
Thanks for all the help so far.

Re: Two MSI 6163 Pro cap problems...

I have looked at all the solderings. Can't see any problems with them. Is there any tricks to find the problem?

I damaged one of the traces from the circuit "LV244A" to a small one that says "472". I think it has something to do with the BIOS slashing or something (that I will probably never use if I get this board to work.)

Re: Two MSI 6163 Pro cap problems...

I plugged in the mainboard once again to measure the rest of the VCC's to the RAM.
This time there were no voltage at all there?
Seems to be a bad connection somewhere. Any ideas of where it could be and how do I find it?

At the same time measuring I accidentally shorted something with the cords from the multimeter... What does the circuit do in the upper right corner, next to the bios?: [url]http://img227.*************/img227/4837/6163pro6ql.jpg[/url]Re: Two MSI 6163 Pro cap problems...... I plugged in

Re: Two MSI 6163 Pro cap problems...

I measured pin 6 on all three slots. 3.32 V on each.
No damage on the PCB.

The machine behaves the exact same way both with and without RAM.
Seems as if it does not find the RAM at all.
The diagnostic LEDs stops at the "Memory and LS Cahche Detecting and sizing".
According to the manuals "Possible Problem": "System D-LED will hang here the memory module might be damaged or not installed properly".

I have two MSI 6163 Pro mainboards. Both of them having problems.
I had one board in my Linux server and one in my windows workstation.
The one in the server started rebooting when doing heavy stuff as compiling for example. I replaced the server and saved that mainboard for later repair.

Now my workstation started acting up. It also reboots under heavy load. Sometimes it reboots when loading windows.

So I got some capacitors for the boards. I changed all the leaking capacitors on the board that I had in the server before. About 30 of them...
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