Journal #7071 by Notewell

Notewell

Posted 13 years ago2011-02-25 21:36:16 UTC

NotewellGIASFELFEBREHBER

Alright, so after a ton of testing, file transfer, buying a new hard drive, and setting that hard drive to work with the motherboard, the verdict has come in for the family computer; The capacitors on the motherboard seem to have deteriorated and no longer work.
Hopefully we will be getting either a replacement motherboard or a replacement computer soon.

And then I can come back regularly.

Striker

Commented 13 years ago2011-02-26 06:50:14 UTC Comment #60745

The capacitor committed suicide. It did not think about how this will influence the other parts.

kdunivan

Commented 13 years ago2011-02-26 11:03:19 UTC Comment #60746

It took you how long to admit that I was actually right about your MB...

Oh yea of little faith and we know who I am talking about...\

It is super simple to fix your problem. Do not replace anything before you at least give it a try. What's the worst that's going to happen? You going to make it worse? lol. I don't think so.

Did you actually inspect the motherboard? Find the capacitors that are slightly raised and those are your culprits. Looks around the chip itself. There should be a group of them and usually this is where they are fried.

I know you can use a soldering gun. Heat 'em up and take 'em out and put the new ones in and solder 'em back. Simple.

I fixed my "broken" motherboard for under $10 and about 2 hours of work. I took my time so I wouldn't screw anything up. Serious, it's simple!

There are a ton of videos on yourtube if you need video help.

Notewell

Commented 13 years ago2011-02-26 16:48:15 UTC Comment #60748

I'm not a hardware expert- I had to wait for my brother to come back from university for reading week and take a look at it.
And it did work, occasionally. Usually when someone took a look at it, so they found nothing wrong.

I'll see if I can take a look at it later.

kdunivan

Commented 13 years ago2011-02-26 19:02:33 UTC Comment #60747

I am NO hardware expert at all and I did it so if that tell you anything.

All you are doing is making the connection hot enough on the bottom to let you pull out the capacitors, you clean the hole with something like a sewing pin or something that thin, thread your new parts, cut 'em off, and drop a small drop of solder on the joint.

I did a little test soldering on a used board that i didn't need and i got pretty good in a day or so. I guess you have to have a little patients as well. If you don't have this, then just chunk the board.

Just trying to help. I knew the capacitors were bad. Usually the culprit.

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