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Hi all, It seems like hardware makers are slowly drifting too far from the shore... I think maybe offering trade in credit for old tech would be a great way use their MASSIVE global influence to turn it all around. selfish benefits are many: remove old tech from the secondary market, force ppl...

I made a totally rad wall plaque for my brother xmas 2016 8800gts (Dead, 10$, dude said he had reflowed it several times) cedar wood plank, there were some convenient holes on the PCB for small brass screws (classy) hand etched with my dremel "all in all youre just another brick on the wall"...

+1 vote for the ATI 'all in wonder' series cards! (debuted the word Radeon I believe) (sorry for the late post) transparent 'always on top' tv window superimposed over ur fav game FTW!!! pre2k when TV and blockbuster were all she wrote in terms of content selection...

OMG LOLMAO so i couldn't leave the darned thing alone last night, what can be undone, can be redone, and what can be redone, can be undone again... so i was like you know what im getting in the swing of this soldering and sculpting little blobs and whatnot im gonna slap that capacitor back...

whoops hit tab-enter Update Part 2: GLAD TO REPORT THAT THE MOTHERBOARD SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN REVIVED FROM THE BRINK, nay several rungs down into the ABYSS after posting an hour ago, I continued with my game of motherboard Jenga! I removed the three pronged black piece next to the...

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Update!!: +1 to Spartacus, best answer selected... Sort of! so I finally got over the 'i want my broken motherboard to be perfect' sentiment and decided it was time to push on forward. an extremely difficult waterfall-in-a-deep-valley-by-sunset 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle helped to exhaust my...

update: still hacking away at it, getting these SMDs to stick is pretty hard!! I need a tiny super hot soldering iron, did find a pair of 2.75power magnifying glasses and that helps out a lot. sorry to ramble in my previous postings, blahblahblah blah. lol have been reluctant to test for...

yeah its all about the intel boards with bent cpu socket pins... they usually go for cheap, and mostly work! that said prolly best to have a spare Celeron to test them with! it sure would help if i knew what this little gold brick thing was, it is identical the the top row of 4 smds directly...

(IF YOU DONT WANT A FREE CHRISTMAS PRESENT SKIP TO PARAGRAPH 2 NOW!) OMG..... too busy singing Christmas carols with the famalam, forgot to bid on a nice asus prime b250m-a for my custom made case, would have been case closed.... SOLD 17.50$ shipped--- shucks! Here is a truly-epic-top-secret...

still no dice... desoldered nearest capacitor... header ceased to deliver power to USB flashlight, computer still booted to 'overcurrent detected' error replaced capacitor, header once again delivered power, error message still comes up I am fairly stumped.. is the issue even local to the...

Spartacus, thanks a lot for the reply! I need better tools it would seem, namely some 10x glasses like ive seen some doctor/surgeons wear. and my ebay pen iron was getting no traction on desoldering anything, the tip is maybe too blunt to get into the dip where pin meets board... I was...

walked dogs, saw Christmas lights, read internet. I tested the header pins with a multimeter vs another motherboard and im getting similar readings (several pins show continuity, probably through a capacitor... resistance creeping steadily upward) may try to desolder the nearest capacitor (in...

here is a pic! two tiny black bits below the capacitor, one gold bit next to the 24pin connector (scorched earth lol) strangely enough the usb header does now work (15 second window) as in it charged my flashlight! how to get around this pesky overcurrent error code, or nuke this...

Hi Janas, thanks for the fast reply! … cannot access bios at this time, stuck at the error code and then it powers down... since it displays text on the screen I know it lives! CPU, IGPU, ram are working. research says this code is usually a pin-short, but also the tiny damaged...

(IF YOU DONT CARE ABOUT THE INTO SKIP TO PARAGRAPH 3 NOW) Ok so heres the deal, just made an account on the [H], have read a lot of threads on here and really consider y'all to be the last line of defense in terms of 'can this be done' or 'what happens id I...' that said ive read a bunch of...