- Jun 21, 2014
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Ive had a GA-EP45-DS3P for 6 years. Absolutely brilliant.
One day I hit the power button and it powers up, but gives no display output, no mobo status beeps, no nothing. Just initial power up lights. The CPU fan does not spin. Its like its stuck in "I just got power and im checking everything's OK before proceeding" state.
Then, it wouldnt power up at all. I get standby LEDs, and pushing the power button on the mobo or shorting the power pins does nothing at all.
Then after some more fiddling, it reverts to the previous issue of powering and going no further. This points me towards an issue where something is making an intermittent connection somewhere. Also, due to the issue first appearing on a cold boot, I imagine whatever has caused the issue happened while the board was cooling down after its last use.
Ive had a lot of old and well used boards with chips develop similar weird issues like this from the solder joints on the chips going dry. PS3s, Xboxes, hell i even brought an old Sony VAIO back to life by blasting the graphics chip with a heat gun.
So my question is:
Has anyone ever had dry/failed/cracked solder joints on a mobo that were resolved by the classic melt and re-set of solder balls procedure under high heat?
The mobo is currently dead so i dont have anything to loose giving it a shot. I've performed all standard troubleshooting like removing bios battery to reset, trying various combos of CPUs/ram/PSUs, etc. This is definitely a physical issue on the board.
I'm aware that i could and should just get a new board but im a problem solver and i love fixing things. I probably will get a new board but if i can have a play and possibly get this back up and running, why not?!
Any advice or past experiences will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
One day I hit the power button and it powers up, but gives no display output, no mobo status beeps, no nothing. Just initial power up lights. The CPU fan does not spin. Its like its stuck in "I just got power and im checking everything's OK before proceeding" state.
Then, it wouldnt power up at all. I get standby LEDs, and pushing the power button on the mobo or shorting the power pins does nothing at all.
Then after some more fiddling, it reverts to the previous issue of powering and going no further. This points me towards an issue where something is making an intermittent connection somewhere. Also, due to the issue first appearing on a cold boot, I imagine whatever has caused the issue happened while the board was cooling down after its last use.
Ive had a lot of old and well used boards with chips develop similar weird issues like this from the solder joints on the chips going dry. PS3s, Xboxes, hell i even brought an old Sony VAIO back to life by blasting the graphics chip with a heat gun.
So my question is:
Has anyone ever had dry/failed/cracked solder joints on a mobo that were resolved by the classic melt and re-set of solder balls procedure under high heat?
The mobo is currently dead so i dont have anything to loose giving it a shot. I've performed all standard troubleshooting like removing bios battery to reset, trying various combos of CPUs/ram/PSUs, etc. This is definitely a physical issue on the board.
I'm aware that i could and should just get a new board but im a problem solver and i love fixing things. I probably will get a new board but if i can have a play and possibly get this back up and running, why not?!
Any advice or past experiences will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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