Noob here. A friend's homebuilt Soyo blew and I tried buying a replacement mobo on eBay.
The original board is a K7VME and the new one is a K7VXA (Dragon Plus). The new board arrived and it too had bad caps. No POST.
I took down the specs of all the bad caps on both boards and ordered Panasonic replacements from STSI. After learning the hard way that most soldering irons are worthless for this tast, I finally got a Weller 30W/130W iron this morning and set about removing the old ones and replacing them -- being careful to note negative and positive, using a rubber bulb and dental pick to clean holes. Radio Shack standard rosin-core 60/40 .032" diameter solder.
Neither board POSTs or beeps. With the new board, I noticed too late that there was a broken trace on the backside from one of the power connector's terminals, but the power LED on the board still lights when power's on so I'm not sure what that trace was supposed to power.
I was *trying* to save my friend money by doing this myself, and between us we've already spent $200 on boards, RAM, and electronics supplies.
Not to mention the roughly seven hours I've sat at this table since this morning.
Help.
The original board is a K7VME and the new one is a K7VXA (Dragon Plus). The new board arrived and it too had bad caps. No POST.
I took down the specs of all the bad caps on both boards and ordered Panasonic replacements from STSI. After learning the hard way that most soldering irons are worthless for this tast, I finally got a Weller 30W/130W iron this morning and set about removing the old ones and replacing them -- being careful to note negative and positive, using a rubber bulb and dental pick to clean holes. Radio Shack standard rosin-core 60/40 .032" diameter solder.
Neither board POSTs or beeps. With the new board, I noticed too late that there was a broken trace on the backside from one of the power connector's terminals, but the power LED on the board still lights when power's on so I'm not sure what that trace was supposed to power.
I was *trying* to save my friend money by doing this myself, and between us we've already spent $200 on boards, RAM, and electronics supplies.
Not to mention the roughly seven hours I've sat at this table since this morning.
Help.
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