Help! My motherboard is on fire!
This weeks project is a quite a nice socket 1366 motherboard – ASUS Rampage II Extreme – with an even more unusual failure. Southbridge thinks it’s on fire. But before…
An unlikely encounter
This weeks post is about a request I got. Seller of one of my previous GPUs has reached out to me seeking help with his graphics card. Me being be,…
Freebies are always welcome
I managed to snag a freebie – a free laptop that was left next to the dumpster. It’s nothing special, really, but it’s a freebie, so I can’t really complain…
Why do I do this to myself…
I hate printers. Everybody hates printers, at least to some degree. They for some reason NEVER work as intended. Be it wrong colors, dried ink, unable to connect to Wi-Fi…
Repairing a top 15% GPU
Yeah… That’s a clickbait. In reality it’s jusy a GTX 580 with a custom Arctic cooler. It’s a high bin though, top 15%, give or take. At least according to…
Radeon 7970 + not-so-ragefixing #5
Since Poczta Polska has failed me ONCE AGAIN and I couldn’t finish a project I was cooking up for quite a few weeks now I had to come up with…
2 fast 2 furious
I still needed a heatsink to my ASUS GTX 580 and when a suitable GPU appeared I immediately jumped the gun and bought it. It had supposedly working cooling and…
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…
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 *spoiler*, 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.…