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I made a mistake, I dug up the MB out of my basement to put in a case and noticed that it is the SYS_Fan1 header that is blown Not the CPU_FAN header.
There was a solder lead that connected from the fan header to the PCIe-1 connector. It melted under the soldermask and is exposed now and only a copper lead shows and is fraggled looking.
Why is the fan header connected to the PCIe slot with a solder lead?
Nothing on the back of the board is fried.
I blew the CPU fan header on a Gigabyte board and you know that before boot up the bios checks to see if the fan is working before booting up so I can't bypass the fan and no boot up.
I read on the internet about a guy that did the exact same thing and he replaced one transistor and got his board working again, but he didn't bother to mention which chip he replaced
Anyway to find out which chip it could be or anyone fix boards for cheap?
There was a solder lead that connected from the fan header to the PCIe-1 connector. It melted under the soldermask and is exposed now and only a copper lead shows and is fraggled looking.
Why is the fan header connected to the PCIe slot with a solder lead?
Nothing on the back of the board is fried.
I blew the CPU fan header on a Gigabyte board and you know that before boot up the bios checks to see if the fan is working before booting up so I can't bypass the fan and no boot up.
I read on the internet about a guy that did the exact same thing and he replaced one transistor and got his board working again, but he didn't bother to mention which chip he replaced
Anyway to find out which chip it could be or anyone fix boards for cheap?
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