Re: Unsoldering old Mosfets and Soldering in new

What is the recommended technique for soldering the MOSFET back onto the motherboard? How you solder the flat side to the backplane?

Re: Would just recapping solve my problem - desoldered MOSFETs

Here are the pictures:

Bad MOSFET



Blown Caps

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I have a gigabyte GA-7VAXP motherboard which has bulging and leaking caps.

It has been running OK. When I examined the motherboard, I found the bad caps, and also saw that several of the MOSFETs in the VR circuit had overheated and melted the solder onto the motherboard on their flat side - none are scorched or melted. I presume (but don't know for sure) that this was caused by the bad caps.


I'm worried about a fire-hazard here. If I recap the motherboard, would the MOSFETs be OK and not further overheat?

Should I replace the MOSFETs as well...