Crippled X48
This week on my bench laid a pretty interesting motherboard – Gigabyte X48-DS4, which finally gave a challenge in terms of my repairman skills. Without further ado, let’s get right…
2024
PE7700, not so dead anymore
… So, what I said last time was a lie. I said that it’s unfixable. Welp, I found another dead PE7700, with *spoilers*, likely good motherboard. How about we check…
ASUS, what’s wrong with you?
Another dead motherboard from ASUS, this time for AMD processors. It’s a Crosshair V Formula. Problem – absolutely no power. Power_on# signal is present, so the southbridge IC is toast.…
FreeNAS with TrueNAS*
For the last month I’ve been lacking a NAS. It’s not that the previous setup broke, it’s just the fact that the machine that was hosting the TrueNAS service is…
A hydra-like GPU with hydra-like problems
Recently my bench greeted not one, but two old and pretty exotic GPUs – Nvidia 9800GX2. For those unaware these are essentially two underclocked 9800GTXs SLI-ed in one package. Pretty…
Diversification
In spirit of broadening my horizons (as well as lack of interesting PC parts to fix) I bought a W10000 projector, which is fully working. Soon after I saw a…
Dead men tell no tales
Hands up if You think it’s time for another failed repair. I see no hands in the air, good, I also don’t like when I fail to repair my projects.…
Hold up, wait a minute
Both of these repairs I’m going to remember for a long time, I haven’t been this confused in literal ages. What was wrong? You’re going to have to stick around…
Beyond the point of diminishing returns…
Remember when I said that I wouldn’t delid a G80 core? Yeah… Me neither. So, I delided it. Multiple ones to be exact and also I have only one thing…
My first time…
… replacing a south bridge. Or PCH. However You want to call it, they essentially do the same thing. As a bonus I’ve acquired 2 GPUs “not tested”. Mhmm. Besides…