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− | | Check For Damage || Check for blown capacitors. Do a careful visual check. Then do it again. This will save you wasted time further down the road. '''ANY''' domed capacitors warrant recycling the board. Then check for damaged sockets or other damage to devices on the motherboard. If it is a socket 775 or socket xxxx check carefully for bent socket pins with a magnifying lens. If there '''ARE''' bent pins recycle the board. It's not worth time repairing the socket. Check for dark areas on the underside of the board where a device (surface mounted) may have over heated. Recycle the board if you find any. Broken or missing memory slot attachment arms are not reason to reject a board as long as the board passes all the other tests. | + | | Check For Damage || *Check for blown capacitors. Do a careful visual check. Then do it again. This will save you wasted time further down the road. '''ANY''' domed capacitors warrant recycling the board. *Then check for damaged sockets or other damage to devices on the motherboard. If it is a socket 775 or socket xxxx check carefully for bent socket pins with a magnifying lens. If there '''ARE''' bent pins recycle the board. It's not worth time repairing the socket. *Check for dark areas on the underside of the board where a device (surface mounted) may have over heated. Recycle the board if you find any. Broken or missing memory slot attachment arms are not reason to reject a board as long as the board passes all the other tests. |
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− | | Is it a DELL motherboard ? || Remove the heatsink and, if it is of use on other types of motherboards, save it. Otherwise, recycle the heatsink. Remove the processor and save it for testing later if it qualifies (it is of the minimum speed and processor type). Remove the button battery and save it for testing later. Remove any jumpers and save them. | + | | Is it a DELL motherboard ? || *Remove the heatsink and, if it is of use on other types of motherboards, save it. Otherwise, recycle the heatsink. *Remove the processor and save it for testing later if it qualifies (it is of the minimum speed and processor type). *Remove the button battery and save it for testing later. *Remove any jumpers and save them. *Recycle the motherboard. DELLs require a special chassis and cannot be universally mounted in third party chassis's. |
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| Check for SATA ports || | | Check for SATA ports || |
Revision as of 13:50, 26 May 2010
Bluetooth Testing
Tex 20:37, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
There are a multitude of items to check in motherboard testing. This is not for the faint of heart. Lose hope all yea who enter here.
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