Triaging an Incoming Machine
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Incoming Machine - Time to Triage
- Pull case off
- Check for bad caps ( if bad,replace bad caps with up sized caps if applicable)
- Check for hard drive (if present, take to dban station to dban)
- If bad caps are found do the following:
l:* Remove all expansions/cables to motherboard
- Remove mother board
- Begin removing bad caps, do not remove CPU, Memory, or the heat sink/ fan to CPU.
- To remove a cap...
- Turn on smoke machine
- Then turn on the sod erring iron, and set the desired temp
- Apply small amount of solder to the caps you want to remove to heat solder conductively
- Put pulling pressure on opposite side of current applied solder. Cap should be wiggled or drop loose.
- Remove access solder from cap and motherboard
- Make sure pins are even on new/good cap
- Take board make sure all open cap spaces have cleaned drilled holes
- After replacing caps, reconnect the mother board and try to turn it on
- If this fails, continue with these trouble shooting ideas...