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  • pfrcom
    Oldbie
    • Jun 2006
    • 1230
    • Australia

    #1

    Gigabyte 7VM400M-RZ

    Pretty miffed when my 7VM400M-RZ stopped working, quite a handy board for testing Socket 462 processors

    First try at resuscitation was replacing its larger capacitors, when that didn't work, all smaller ones as well



    Still dead as, so I embarked upon what would usually be my first try, reprogramming the BIOS externally

    Unfortunately Gigabyte being one of those $hit manufacturers who added a couple of cents to their profit margin by soldering BIOS chips directly to the board, I had to cut the chip out



    solder in a socket



    -then- program a replacement chip

    Still no sign of life

    I'm now considering a north bridge reflow, although have had one success

    https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=47708

    and one failure with that

    https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=50171

    Any suggestions?
    better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
  • SMDFlea
    Super Moderator
    • Jan 2018
    • 20492
    • UK

    #2
    Re: Gigabyte 7VM400M-RZ

    The schematic might help. Are you getting any voltage on the bios and power switch.
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    • piernov
      Super Moderator
      • Jan 2016
      • 4435
      • France

      #3
      Re: Gigabyte 7VM400M-RZ

      "no sign of life" is quite vague. No point in suspecting BIOS or MCH if there is no power at all and it doesn't even try to turn on when triggering power button.
      OpenBoardView — https://github.com/OpenBoardView/OpenBoardView

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      • pfrcom
        Oldbie
        • Jun 2006
        • 1230
        • Australia

        #4
        Re: Gigabyte 7VM400M-RZ

        Originally posted by piernov
        "no sign of life" is quite vague. No point in suspecting BIOS or MCH if there is no power at all and it doesn't even try to turn on when triggering power button.
        Poor choice of words - board always powers on, so no sign of POST would be more accurate

        BTW here's pics meant to be in original, which I cannot now edit
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        better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

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        • ChaosLegionnaire
          HC Overclocker
          • Jul 2012
          • 3264
          • Singapore

          #5
          Re: Gigabyte 7VM400M-RZ

          via board huh? since u had one success reflowing a via board, i say go for it again!

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          • momaka
            master hoarder
            • May 2008
            • 12170
            • Bulgaria

            #6
            Re: Gigabyte 7VM400M-RZ

            Hmmm. I see green Sanyo caps on those pics. Are they WG or WF series? If WF, you might want to replace them. They are known dud series, though they usually bulge the same way as United Chemicon KZG - i.e. typically when they are not used for a long time.

            Other things to suggest:
            - Did you try the board with a different stick of known good RAM? What happens if no RAM is installed? Motherboard beeping errors or not?
            - Did you try re-installing the CPU. Old CPUs and sockets are usually very resilient against corrosion, but it doesn't hurt to try and reinstall the CPU a few times to clear any possible surface dirt on the contacts in the CPU socket.
            - Was the CPU and RAM inserted and removed many times before? CPU and RAM sockets aren't meant for frequent component swapping, so if you did this every time you used the board, that could be a problem too. (Though it should be noted that CPU and RAM sockets can still probably take around 100 insertion cycles safely, so I doubt this is the issue here. Still had to mentioned it anyways, not knowing the history of the motherboard or how it was used.)
            - Have a PCI POST card or can borrow one? Older boards are usually pretty decent about displaying POST codes on POST cards. The code is actually not that important, but rather seeing if the board is even trying to POST. This is handy for narrowing down the issue to voltage and/or enable signal problem or a component getting stuck at POST.
            Last edited by momaka; 07-10-2020, 05:50 PM.

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            • pfrcom
              Oldbie
              • Jun 2006
              • 1230
              • Australia

              #7
              Re: Gigabyte 7VM400M-RZ

              Green caps are recent Suncon, albeit from eBay, checked on Transistor Tester before use - replaced KZGs which looked fine before removal

              Tried with several different RAM, varying from DDR266 to DDR400, seeing test CPU is a Duron 800

              No beeps if no RAM

              Duron recently removed to test on another board (ironically a PC Chips M810) to verify it was working

              CPU hasn't been changed too often - something I try to avoid, especially with sockets having flimsy HSF clips

              POST card's LED card showed No Signal as I recall - reason I wanted to try another BIOS chip

              It's winter here in Southern Hemisphere - I'll probably try ChaosLegionnaire's suggestion when my garage becomes habitable again
              Last edited by pfrcom; 07-10-2020, 08:58 PM.
              better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

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