MotherBoard Problem...

maniac947 · July 21, 2005, 4:50am

I was in the middle of a heatsink fan upgrade since the one it had i died…So it was kinda stuck to the CPU so i had to use my screwdriver to see if it would help, well it sliped and landed on a chip on the motherboard it moved a little bit but not much that its too lose.

I wasn’t appyling alot of force to it but when it landed on the motherboard it still moved out of its spot alittle. That happned about a week ago, today i took my screwdriver and was tapping it but it didnt move so im guessing its still intacked? But im afraid that if i turn it on something may go wrong or it will work but in the future it may fall out…Is there a way it can be fixed?.And another thing what are those things? and what is it for?

The Mohterboard is a Chaintech 7VIF4Pic

Here are some pics (Note My Camera Suxs)
PIC 1
PIC 2

system · July 21, 2005, 4:54am

i’m guessing everythings still all right, are there any small pins dislocated at any sides?

maniac947 · July 21, 2005, 5:05am

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i’m guessing everythings still all right, are there any small pins dislocated at any sides?
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Na, its still pretty intacked i tryed move it to see if it was lose but its not that lose i didnt wanna move it hard enough so it would come off the MB.

BTW wut are those things?

Big_B · July 21, 2005, 8:25am

Looks like a resistor by my guess. You may be okay powering it on, but that’s not a 100% guarantee. Likely, you’d have instability if anything, but again, I’m not 100% positive.

maniac947 · July 21, 2005, 5:05pm

Things just has gotten worse, I put the motherboard upside down to see if it would of fall off and it DID… the dam thing is so small i need a magnifying glass to see it.

Now my question is if it can be reparied? :mad:

system · July 21, 2005, 7:33pm

that could make your motherboard pretty unstable

did you pay for a warranty?

maniac947 · July 21, 2005, 7:51pm

lol I think that its to late for that, its been over a year now that i got it.

I email chaintech support and they say i could try soldering it, but the thing is to small and i have no solderin skills.. i could mess the mobo more up…

maniac947 · July 22, 2005, 1:22am

I connected it and it works fine… :good:

max12590 · July 22, 2005, 3:34am

You soldered it?

maniac947 · July 22, 2005, 3:39am

nope

max12590 · July 22, 2005, 4:23am

How did you get it back on? Duct tape?

maniac947 · July 22, 2005, 4:30am

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How did you get it back on? Duct tape?
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nothing its not on the board at ALL

max12590 · July 22, 2005, 4:32am

So you are running with a piece of your motherboard on the floor?

maniac947 · July 22, 2005, 5:04am

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So you are running with a piece of your motherboard on the floor?
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lol not really its on a zip lock bag. I was reading on some forums that it wont afect the MB normal activity. its just something so small i think its not even 1CM, so tiny i think i can eat it and i think i’ll be aright…lol

max12590 · July 22, 2005, 8:39pm

Hmmm, the transistors are so small in a CPU that they are invisble to the naked eye. Size doesn’t matter.

maniac947 · July 22, 2005, 9:08pm

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Hmmm, the transistors are so small in a CPU that they are invisble to the naked eye. Size doesn’t matter.
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i dont know what it is resitors, transitors… etc. but its very small. and theres alot of them on every motherboard they have a tanish color.

system · July 22, 2005, 9:12pm

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lol not really its on a zip lock bag. I was reading on some forums that it wont afect the MB normal activity. its just something so small i think its not even 1CM, so tiny i think i can eat it and i think i’ll be aright…lol
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hey people have gotten away with diamonds why not some compressed pcb and silicon :good: :good: