Elfen
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It's Alive! Well, not exactly, but it was successful.
Washed the board, dried it with my heated air pencil, and did each capacitor one at a time. GOD WHAT A HEADACHE! Took 2 hours! But in checking and rechecking, I found no rotted traces. NONE! What Luck! I did find that several caps were glued to the board, making the cap removal that much more harder.
But there was a problem - the black caps I use were slightly larger than the space the old caps allowed! So there was some trouble soldering each cap, so after each cap, I checked each one with a multimeter to make sure it connected to the board, the joints and the traces.
This particular IIsi has a dead PSU, this I know and it needs a recap as well (perhaps one day!). But the other IIsi I have has a questionable PSU. In swapping them for a test - the board turned on, audio works, issues with the VGA monitor resolution occurred but that was expected. Also - the original RAM in the machine is dead, giving the Chimes of Death. But swapping out with working RAM I know - the IIsi turns on and boots! Mouse works, keyboard works too!
But again, this second PSU is iffy, and after it warmed up, problems came up. Sudden Shut Downs, sudden restarts, boot freezes. etc. Let it cool, and works fine until it gets warm.
So congrats to me! Looks like I got the curse broken. The other IIsi will get a recap tomorrow or during the weekend. It depends on how I feel after I get my second radiation treatment early tomorrow. Just got to figure out how to open the PSU. It looks what a tin can of food would look like to a cave man armed with a rock.
Washed the board, dried it with my heated air pencil, and did each capacitor one at a time. GOD WHAT A HEADACHE! Took 2 hours! But in checking and rechecking, I found no rotted traces. NONE! What Luck! I did find that several caps were glued to the board, making the cap removal that much more harder.
But there was a problem - the black caps I use were slightly larger than the space the old caps allowed! So there was some trouble soldering each cap, so after each cap, I checked each one with a multimeter to make sure it connected to the board, the joints and the traces.
This particular IIsi has a dead PSU, this I know and it needs a recap as well (perhaps one day!). But the other IIsi I have has a questionable PSU. In swapping them for a test - the board turned on, audio works, issues with the VGA monitor resolution occurred but that was expected. Also - the original RAM in the machine is dead, giving the Chimes of Death. But swapping out with working RAM I know - the IIsi turns on and boots! Mouse works, keyboard works too!
But again, this second PSU is iffy, and after it warmed up, problems came up. Sudden Shut Downs, sudden restarts, boot freezes. etc. Let it cool, and works fine until it gets warm.
So congrats to me! Looks like I got the curse broken. The other IIsi will get a recap tomorrow or during the weekend. It depends on how I feel after I get my second radiation treatment early tomorrow. Just got to figure out how to open the PSU. It looks what a tin can of food would look like to a cave man armed with a rock.