Or would all my time and effort be wasted trying to repair this? Sure I can replace the components that are damaged, but what if the actually circuity inside the board is gone as well? Anyway should I toss it or try the repair?
Oh snap looks like someone busted ur caps. Depends how much the capicitors are, if you want to fix it for science go ahead. Id say from the charring you probably burned a few leads on the board, but you never know. Another thing to consider is what made the caps fail in the first place, was something pluged in wrong?
I've had this machine running for a few years actually with no issues. Went away for spring break and when I came back it would turn on, then shut off after about 2 minutes. No bios boot or beeps, did the whole remove parts/boot up process then I finally noticed the blown capacitors. Have no idea why it went boom actually.
It fried through to the bottom of the board and it likely didn't need the capacitors to be running at full.
Do you have a limited lifetime warranty? (I know eVGA has it on a few of its products.. for example) or any way to RMA it? Or is it past its warranty date. If you really wanted to and had the time/resources I guess you could attempt a repair, but if it was me I'd just send the board back to the manufacturer if it wasn't my fault it blew and it was under warranty and hopefully get another one back.
Looks like a very old board to me. Doubtful it is under warranty and highly doubtful it is made by the manufacturer anymore so replacement would be out of the question. They look like DDR1 slots, the choke's are really old style, and motherboards havent been made with an IDE port in many years. Not only that, but it was designed for two IDE ports, unheard of in the past 8 generations. Trying to repair for fun would be ok, but I wouldnt use it in the system anymore even if you did get it working. Id be worried about it going out again and taking more hardware with it.
I felt the same way, Enig - but still, maybe he could have fun with it. The best point to take though is: it could take more hardware with it. I'm kind of anxious to see what the other hardware was with that board though, haha!
Yeah I got the bad boy about 5 years ago, still runs games at decent quality with 30ish fps usually. Some games choke, like NS2, and a few of the really new ones, like skyrim and dragon age. It is DDR2 however But yes, very old board so no warranty. It's actually from an old Dell XPS, I was surprised I got it from a friend who sold it to me for 400 bucks, the video card at the time was worth double that. I have not had a single problem with it other than the Optical drives being total garbage. I replaced those, and added a hard drive about 3 years ago and didn't even open the case besides cleaning the fans and vents since then. It's past it's time, I'm not going to risk ruining my other hardware, but I will miss the poor fella. I've recently bought a laptop that blows the shit outta this desktop, but the wife took it for training currently. I just bought a new car, and motorcycle so a new PC is pushing it lol.
The Specs are Pentium D 3.00GHz,800MHzFSB,2MBCache 4GB DDR2 1TB Serial ATA Drive NVIDIA® nForce4 SLITM X16 MCP chipset 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (Was a monster IMO) The bottleneck was actually the CPU, It ran good, card didn't have the newest Direct X Support which is why I went out and got a new laptop that could. But yeah, was happy with the purchase, remember 5 years ago that was pretty good!
Dont do it. dont do it!!!!!!! DONT DO IT!!!! Thats three times I told you. This will end badly. You've been warned.
You could take it out and beat it with a baseball bat. I've done that with old, non usable or safeable hardware before.
I'm actually going to keep it until I go camping this year, Im going to make it a mini lego town with the board and then place it top of the fire so it slowly lights on fire and burns. Should be a good time lol.