Question Intel D915GAG/D915PSY Motherboard Repair

[thetechsavvy01]

Maybe I shouldn't have done this the way I did it but I tested all the capacitors on this motherboard by means of continuity and attempted to go to town on the solder joints to remove the dead capacitors, but the solder joints wouldn't melt. My iron goes up to 450°C, but it won't melt regardless. I used flux but to no avail.

My second beef with this is it was working completely fine but the moment I installed windows 2000 and got sound and video drivers installed, and then turned off the computer, when I turned it on again, it wouldn't post. I even removed RAM so I could force an error and get it to beep at me and that didn't work either. I replaced one capacitor that was known to be leaking, but that didn't help. I asked Intel about this and they told me to toss it. I have spent months working on this but I don't want to give it up yet because of two key things: IDE and SATA at once, and it is has a very powerful graphics chip installed.

Thanks for any help I can get until I gain the experience and funds to get it either fixed or replaced.

 

[Ralston18]

Hold!

1) Windows 2000 is history. Ancient history. And should not be used or installed baring extreme requirements to do so.

2) Overall many things are no longer meant to be repaired and products are designed not to be repairable. One way being requiring high solder temperatures along with a design requirement to use deprecated components such as capacitors.

3) What is that "very powerful graphics chip"? Doubt that that chip remains "powerful".

Always nice to be able to repair something but that is no longer the world we live in....

Is there some reason for not moving on to another motherboard?

What are your working requirements for a computer?

 

[thetechsavvy01]

To answer your question,
1. Exactly. Thats what I am going for. It is a retro "gaming" PC
2. That is what I thought at first when I cranked my iron to 450° C and nothing was happening
3. The chip is an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900. It has good hardware acceleratoon and is capable at outputting resolutions up to 1600x1200, but because of my monitor it goes to 1600x900 instead.

The reason I dont want to change is because I like the pentium 4 as well as 4 DIMM slots to get stuff done. Once I put Windows 2000 on the pentium 4 and played AOE (before the mobo crapped itself and died), it felt so much smoother than on my AMD Sempron 3000+ which now currently runs Windows 2000 but is significantly slower.

My requirements are as follows:
2.5 GHz or higher
IDE for compatibility with my hard disk
SATA, enough for two DVD burners and another hard disk if necessary
FDD once I get one
Memory of up to 4 gigabytes of RAM so i can eventually run Windows 2000 Server
Capacity to 200GB