Motherboard component level repair for amateures & Mac Gyvers

[foxmobouser]

So I tried fixing the socket pins.. No luck.. It remained the same..
my RMAed P8Z77M-PRO is back. I'm confused whether to continue using the P8Z77-V with 2 dimm slots or the replaced P8Z77M-PRO... well, I only have 2 rams right now.. Just wondering if maybe I could get more in the future... just thinking...

Well if you have 2 ram slots working in dual channel I dont really see a sense in having all 4 populated. If the system works fine then I would use it and sell the good rma return and save the money for a better upgrade in the future.

[foxmobouser]

Well I seem to have a moment in my motherboard soldering empire to get back to working on my threads. I'll be updating this thread with a lot more info shortly. The journey in pursuit of my new hobby has led me down many interesting roads.

One of the most shocking and exciting one was when I picked up a store return mb as broken/not posting for 5$ and after looking at it found that It was missing a bios chip. I called the manufacturer and they sent me a new one for free and after installing it the mb worked perfect.

[PP Mguire]

You can make bank doing this, easily.

I have a friend who makes bank off HDDs from EDS (Electronic Discount Sales, small business here in the DFDub). He goes and buys enterprise drives that are a dollar or 2 classified as dead, or only have dead boards. He sends them all back to Seagate and with his company RMA gets brand new 2-4TB Barracuda XTs on request. He then sells them for 20 or 25% off and banks total freakin bank. He bought his whole PC that way. (3960x, 680 4GB FTW+)

[najiro]

You can make bank doing this, easily.

I have a friend who makes bank off HDDs from EDS (Electronic Discount Sales, small business here in the DFDub). He goes and buys enterprise drives that are a dollar or 2 classified as dead, or only have dead boards. He sends them all back to Seagate and with his company RMA gets brand new 2-4TB Barracuda XTs on request. He then sells them for 20 or 25% off and banks total freakin bank. He bought his whole PC that way. (3960x, 680 4GB FTW+)

You're not talking in a third-person point of view right? O___O

[foxmobouser]

You can make bank doing this, easily.

I have a friend who makes bank off HDDs from EDS (Electronic Discount Sales, small business here in the DFDub). He goes and buys enterprise drives that are a dollar or 2 classified as dead, or only have dead boards. He sends them all back to Seagate and with his company RMA gets brand new 2-4TB Barracuda XTs on request. He then sells them for 20 or 25% off and banks total freakin bank. He bought his whole PC that way. (3960x, 680 4GB FTW+)

Thats what I have been doing the past few weeks with my extra time just with motherboards. Sadly I the only soldering i did was on 1 capacitor only to find out later that there were damaged traces, desoldered a 1155 socket with a heat gun and straightened a ton of pins. Most manufacturers will fix damaged sockets for anywhere from 20-50$ which is pointless to do on any low retailing motherboard. To replace a socket on your own aside from having skill is pretty tough without having some sort of BGA rework station 500-5000$.

[foxmobouser]

Hot flashing bios with an ASUS board.

I really don't know how I got to this other than I had to be board and wanting to see what would happen. So I have a P8P67 Deluxe from Asus that I use and I got a broken one that did not work and disiplayed error "code 06" it looked brand new and booted up but there was no display and just the pci express light light up. I thought I was going to RMA it to ASUS and since it was going out to repair I figured I'd play arround with it and at least update the bios. I read somewhere about "hot flashing" your bios and asked myself the question what would happen if I loaded up the bios with my good board, went into the bios update utility and then just swaped out the bios chip quickly for another. So I had the updated bios on a usb stick and I did just that but when I clicked the read/update bios it updated the bios chip from the other board and boom system booted up nicely. I put the chip back in the Deluxe that was not working and bam all is working like a charm.

[CDsDontBurn]

I know that companies like MSI have their own BIOS flashing station that does Basically what You said Here. I wouldn't Be surprised f other big players Such As ASUS and Gigabyte have the same or similar setups.

[foxmobouser]

I know that companies like MSI have their own BIOS flashing station that does Basically what You said Here. I wouldn't Be surprised f other big players Such As ASUS and Gigabyte have the same or similar setups.

Foxconn just sends out bios chips for "free" after you give them a call as well.

[foxmobouser]

bent pins, disabled 2 dimm slots. Currently using the motherboard. seems to be fine.. I OCed my i5-2500k to 5.0Ghz with it so I guess it is fine. Just "disabled" LOL

On that note just wanted to post in the thread some links on some electrical grade epoxy' used in fixing pins/replacing broken off pins.

I have a soldered off 1155 socket I have been using to pluck out pins with but so far have been unsuccessful in trying to bridge the connection of a partially or totally broken off cpu pin. I recently came across some electrical grade epoxies however not only were they not readily available but also very expensive 35-100+ $.

1. MG Chemicals epoxy link
2. Ellsworth Adhesives link

Now you can request a free sample from Resinlab 2-4g sample. Not posting link to form as if you are serious about finding it you will .