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[Beezer]

Originally posted by Wombat
Why a replacement board? Why not just replace the capacitors? It used to be a common thing around here.

I actually contemplated that - heck, I know how to solder. Is it pretty straight-forward? I am assuming it's one of the 14 larger capacitors that's bad... but I can't quite tell what type of capacitor I need for replacement...

[Kurt]

Just mark down everything you can read on it...

[Wombat]

You'll probably want to replace the whole series of filtering caps by the CPU socket.

[klc314]

Try this guy, been around since the BE6 problem started showing up.

http://www.motherboardrepair.com/

[Beezer]

Originally posted by klc314
Try this guy, been around since the BE6 problem started showing up.

http://www.motherboardrepair.com/

Indeed. That's one of the links that was given to me on the Abit forum. #4 and #7 apply to my situation.

I thought about ordering the parts from him, but didn't want to have to wait another week to get parts. I've had this rig too long already...