"Andy Cuffe" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 May 2007 16:30:09 +0200, Papcina
wrote:



yes ano about the capacitors... but what when a mobo gives no sign of
being alive? the capacitors r fine, bios is reflashed and no visible
sign of burnt stuff? how to find an error in that case?
FETs works normally, every other bigger chip is wroking fine...

any ideas where to check more?

im sentimentaly affected to this mbo )


I've fixed a lot of dead motherboards by removing the CMOS battery for
a day or two. This has worked several times, even when the clear CMOS
jumper didn't help.
Andy Cuffe



If a motherboard is showing no signs of life, how can you say that every other
bigger chip is working fine? If the board is dead, meaning that it won't boot
up, or even run POST tests, then how are you checking the "bigger chips?
You can't assume anything in this case... everything has to be verified
conclusively. The only way that I can think of doing that in the case of a dead
motherboard is to unsolder the chips and put them on a known good board. Given
the lack of service information on any of the PC boards that have been produced
in the past 25 years, it's shooting in the dark.

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