Hello!
Today I got a motherboard stated in the title. It was sold as a not working one, known problems were: few smd components missing from the back, red CPU LED always on, no post.
The reason I bought this motherboard is because I have the exact same one in my PC, so I knew I could check what components are missing from the back.
It was a few filtering caps and one SMD resistor. The resistor seemed to be a 22ohm one, and I put a new one in the right place.
I know smd caps are not really necessary, so I was about to left all down, however I put 4 of the 7 missing on, just to be sure the board is more stable.
After trying to boot the motherboard, it failed. Same symptoms: no post, RGB lights only flicker once (then go black), and the CPU RED LED is constantly on.
Since I know this could be a BIOS problem, I flashed both chips with the version I have on my board.
No change.
I didn't find any short on the board, nor bad traces (I might be wrong ofc).
Voltages seem to be present, as far as I measured.
One weird behaviour, that could help someone: by pressing the power button for 4 secs, the board should shut down. However, this board does nothing.
(Note: There's another flash chip on the board, marked as "ECAU2", but it's empty. Unfortunately I can't check the one on my own board, since it's still under warranty, and I don't want to desolder it.)
Any ideas?
Today I got a motherboard stated in the title. It was sold as a not working one, known problems were: few smd components missing from the back, red CPU LED always on, no post.
The reason I bought this motherboard is because I have the exact same one in my PC, so I knew I could check what components are missing from the back.
It was a few filtering caps and one SMD resistor. The resistor seemed to be a 22ohm one, and I put a new one in the right place.
I know smd caps are not really necessary, so I was about to left all down, however I put 4 of the 7 missing on, just to be sure the board is more stable.
After trying to boot the motherboard, it failed. Same symptoms: no post, RGB lights only flicker once (then go black), and the CPU RED LED is constantly on.
Since I know this could be a BIOS problem, I flashed both chips with the version I have on my board.
No change.
I didn't find any short on the board, nor bad traces (I might be wrong ofc).
Voltages seem to be present, as far as I measured.
One weird behaviour, that could help someone: by pressing the power button for 4 secs, the board should shut down. However, this board does nothing.
(Note: There's another flash chip on the board, marked as "ECAU2", but it's empty. Unfortunately I can't check the one on my own board, since it's still under warranty, and I don't want to desolder it.)
Any ideas?
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