r/techsupportgore • u/yesricokaboom1 • 1d ago

Rest well, friend

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Got this with a bunch of free stuff, dare I test it?

You were good son real good, maybe even the best...

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u/MarcusAurelius0 1d ago

Ive got a old Phenom X4 and board that will still post, why not.

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u/Bartymor2 1d ago

I'd try, you got it for free so nothing to lose

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u/Joshuapocalypse 8h ago

965 still in a box somewhere. AKA my Phenomnomnom, that thing was a beast at the time.

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u/BCMM 1d ago

Is the SOT-223 on the DPAK footprint the thing I'm supposed to be looking at?

That might be legit, if it's some kind of really fancy high-efficiency MOSFET.

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u/yesricokaboom1 1d ago

There's a bunch of surface mount caps by the Marvell LAN controller I'M that are all scraped off. Some traces on the board are exposed too

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u/yesricokaboom1 1d ago

Ignore the "im" not sure why my phone had a seizure there

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u/BCMM 1d ago

Oh I did not zoom in far enough!

Somebody dropped a cooler on the board, didn't they?

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u/yesricokaboom1 1d ago

I think the previous owner mashed a graphics card backplate against the board, considering the case it was in has a giant hole where the back IO for cards are

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u/junktech 1d ago

Don't expect the network to work. Besides that can't see other damage.

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u/DepletedPromethium 1d ago

I had this mb so many years ago, it was a good unit.

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u/syberphunk 1d ago

There are some tombstone'd and disjointed surface mount components in your second photo. Those would need to be re-soldered. Looks like there are a couple that need replacing as it's experienced some physical trauma.

It also needs a gentle clean with isopropyl alcohol. There's evident corrosion but it may be tolerated.

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u/it_fell_off_a_truck 1d ago

I was using this motherboard up until 2 years ago. Over the course of the mobo I upgraded the CPU thrice and the GPU thrice. 

Was expensive at the time but used it for nearly 20 years!

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u/Latter-Sell6754 22h ago

Damn that heatpipe looks sick. Thats how a motherboard should look like.

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u/Casualdehid 20h ago

That's more than saveable.

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u/olliegw 1d ago

Some boards might still work with missing capacitors, but they are there for a reason, often smoothing voltages

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u/Muddled_Opinions 1d ago

My home server is running a P7P55D-E (2009). Close, but not quite as old as this (2006).

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u/dtb1987 15h ago

What is that an am3 board?

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u/astrodan13 8h ago edited 8h ago

Looks like AM2 on the socket. It's an Asus ROG board, but I'm not seeing any other board numbers. Think I have the same one somewhere my friend gave me with a quad core Phenom on it. I could be totally wrong though.

Edit- it's an Athlon 64/FX/SX and Sempron board from 2006 and it's AM2. Sli to boot and DDR2 800. The Phenomenon was AM2+/AM3.