It’s going to be easy, right? Right?
I got my hands on an ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard that supposedly was not turning on. Easy enough – flash the BIOS, maybe it’s going to boot. But then it…
Old, but gold
Old PCs are nice, but guess what makes them even better. Monitors. Old monitors. Yeah, we’re going back in time again, this time to bring back the glory of a…
Got blinded by the money…
Since… hmm.. always I wanted a slim PS3. Not because I needed a reliable PS3, since I made both a 40nm and 65nm Frankenstein BC console and have multiple other…
Ragefixing session #2
Yesterday I was testing capacitors when my tester decided to die. Let’s see what went wrong. It’s a cheap, chinesium transistor tester, model K120263BSJH. I modded it to use 2×18650…
Not everything has to be difficult
Today I have an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Rev2.0 to fix. This was a really easy fix, at least it would have been if I had the knowledge, but let’s start…
AMD Radeon HD6957
On my bench landed an absolutly abominated HD6950, or as I later discovered HD6970. I had not much information about it, besides that it was supposedly working. I have a…
Almost Xbox Live
Since I’m still experimenting with these posts format I decided to do a little live commenting. I probably won’t do it again, because quality of this post is low, even…
Ragefixing session #1
Don’t You hate when your stuff breaks? How about it breaking while it’s most needed? Yeah, I also hate when that happens. Case 1: XBOX controller During testing of another…
I. NEED. TO. SLEEP.
This history is going to be about my most lucky repair of the Gigabyte GA-X58-UD7, that went straight from recycling bin to my workbench. For starters, let’s analyze physical condition.…
Another day, another GPU
This time on the bench lies an ASUS GTX 680. The process is going to be similar to previously repaired 780TI, so without further ado, let’s get started. I started…