moothefish
Member
Hi all, I've spent many many years now looking for an LC575 and a few weeks back I finally found one locally for the price of nothing! Non working but "how bad could it be" I thought. Well..
The battery had started to leak and corrode, as well as the typical 90s and leaky caps. So I cleaned the board as best I could, checked any traces that looked particularly bad, etc. As far as I can tell, there's only two broken ones that go the expansion port, so they shouldn't stop the system from booting. However I haven't had any luck. I can hear the crt degaussing, hard drive spins up, cd drive works etc. But no boot chime, black screen and no hard drive activity. The CPU does get warm after a few minutes, so I assume it's at least doing something.
Any traces in particular I should look at more closely? I've replaced half of the caps on the board (I only had a few leftovers from my se/30 recap) but that has changed nothing. The white residue is left over from the isopropyl, I've given it many coats as well as even washing it with water but I can't seem to get it any cleaner than this. So yeah, is this board fixable or am I going to have to continue my long standing quest for a 575?
https://m.imgur.com/a/AmdzkDo
(Photos won't upload here for reasons unknown)
Also anyone know anything about this video card it came with? Can't find anything about it online.
The battery had started to leak and corrode, as well as the typical 90s and leaky caps. So I cleaned the board as best I could, checked any traces that looked particularly bad, etc. As far as I can tell, there's only two broken ones that go the expansion port, so they shouldn't stop the system from booting. However I haven't had any luck. I can hear the crt degaussing, hard drive spins up, cd drive works etc. But no boot chime, black screen and no hard drive activity. The CPU does get warm after a few minutes, so I assume it's at least doing something.
Any traces in particular I should look at more closely? I've replaced half of the caps on the board (I only had a few leftovers from my se/30 recap) but that has changed nothing. The white residue is left over from the isopropyl, I've given it many coats as well as even washing it with water but I can't seem to get it any cleaner than this. So yeah, is this board fixable or am I going to have to continue my long standing quest for a 575?
https://m.imgur.com/a/AmdzkDo
(Photos won't upload here for reasons unknown)
Also anyone know anything about this video card it came with? Can't find anything about it online.
