Hello, my dad gave me his old PC to "repair" because it was not recognizing the USB ports on the motherboard NOR the ones on the front of the tower, when i opened it, i found this old garbo p5g41-m lx3 with a dual core processor on it.
Everything looked fine but once i plugged the PSU i noticed that even when the PC was NOT on, the southbridge was heating crazy hot, it was so hot that it was dragging the heat to the other close component such as the SATA slots and some mosfets.
Now the PC actually boots (sometimes it was not recognizing the SATA at bios), but the USB ports are straight dead, so i was wondering if it has to do with the southbridge, Because i know these parts can get really hot but i have never seen a component get hot while the PC is off. So, is this motherboard long dead already, or is there a way to recover it, like, changing a mosfet or something like that?
Everything looked fine but once i plugged the PSU i noticed that even when the PC was NOT on, the southbridge was heating crazy hot, it was so hot that it was dragging the heat to the other close component such as the SATA slots and some mosfets.
Now the PC actually boots (sometimes it was not recognizing the SATA at bios), but the USB ports are straight dead, so i was wondering if it has to do with the southbridge, Because i know these parts can get really hot but i have never seen a component get hot while the PC is off. So, is this motherboard long dead already, or is there a way to recover it, like, changing a mosfet or something like that?