Despite what You can often see here not everything is always going perfectly and I can’t fix everything, obviously. Especially when it’s me that causes majority of the destruction.
Welcome to the ASUS Maximus Extreme – X38 NB and DDR3 capable motherboard. Absolute top end of socket 775.
Problems? A few, mostly corrosion, but otherwise…
That’s pretty much all of the good news.
Corrosion, corrosion and corrosion. Sometimes cracked orings.
Now, for the worst part of this “restoration”.
NB heatsink was SO corroded to the IHS that I, even with a heat gun, had to manually PRY it off.
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Motherboard will remember that.
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Anyway, I heard cracking and immediately knew what was going on.
Literally half of the IHS’ surface is covered in corrosion.
I tried the motherboard then, it posted, but stopped on a 01 code. NB is off the board.
Thankfully no damage to the top during delid.
This is a definition of a disaster. There are at least 50 missing pads.
Technically speaking this kind of damage is fixable, just not by me, at least not now. I still don’t have a microscope nor do I have experience in such repairs.
Not to mention that usually signal traces need to be exactly *x* mm in length to function on full speed. that means that even IF I fix it very likely it’s not going to OC as high as originally.
Failure of a month award goes to…
Thanks for reading!