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On 2012-12-14, felix@×××××××.com <felix@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: |
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>> Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt? |
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> Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point |
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> grub or the rescue DVD would take over. |
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>> Yes, your southbridge chipset could just happened to have failed at |
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>> the same time; or it failed on the reboot; or USB and SATA are both |
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>> on the southbridge that failed so you lost both, basically. |
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> Then my natural naive question is, can this be readily replaced, or |
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> is it soldered in and/or obsolete? It is about 8 years old. |
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1) You probably can't get a replacement part. Parts like that have a |
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production lifetime of about 6 months. You _might_ be able to find |
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one on the secondary market -- if you're prepared to buy them by |
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the tray-full. If you find them, they'll either be dirt cheap or |
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ridiculously expensive. |
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2) If you had a replacement part, it's probably a BGA part, and you |
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have to have special equipment (and/or a _lot_ of luck with a |
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heat-gun) to get the old part off and the new part on without |
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destroying the board or surrounding parts. Your best bet would be |
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to take it to a board house that does prototype builds and have |
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them replace it. But, unless you're a regular customer, they're |
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going to charge you so much for the job that you could probably buy |
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a half-dozen replacement motherboards along with CPUs and RAM to go |
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with them [if there's no hope of real business, they'll probably |
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just say 'no' unless they're bored and feel like doing you a |
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favor]. |
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The only practical thing to do is replace the motherboard. You might |
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be able to find an old one on eBay that will accept the same CPU and |
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RAM, but 8 years is a _long_ time... |
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Grant |