[H] Demise of a Motherboard

2014-02-05 Thread Steve Tomporowski
With all the snow hitting CT today, I took a vacation day, we probably got close to 10. Anyways, my music computer refused to start initially yesterday, but then it started. Today, no go. It's a Gigabyte P45 board with an E8500 that served me well for quite a few years. So I started to

Re: [H] Demise of a Motherboard

2014-02-05 Thread DSinc
Steve, I does seem that you and I are looking at new m/b's! Yes, I agree with your pause at replacing caps on a m/b. Yes there are many layers. Scary to me. In my case, I 'un-retired' an old A7N8X-deluxe w/AMD Barton 2500+ so I could could read Forums in my 'server/NAS room.' This dang PC

[H] Routers to new homes?

2014-02-05 Thread DSinc
Shortly I will receive 2 new N750 routers. One to use, one a spare. This is because my ISP tech person came by to check out my 'stuff.' His diagnosis was that my current N300 router is now a 'bottleneck' to my 'internet experience' on my fiber-optic Giga-bit feed. OK. Damn! OK. So, I wait for a