What had gone on the mobo? Was it the usual capacitor??
Edit : duh.. I speed read/wrote... sorry...
had the capacitor taken everything else out with it? or was it a power surge blew everything kind of thing??
The capacitor in itself does nothing, it is just there as a supressor. The problem with the mainboard was track seperation and dry joints. Mainboard seperation means the copper tracks between the various transducers, gates and resistors has delaminated. How can I explain it???
Ok, it's like you have a ham salad sandwich with mayo. The the ham and the salad are are on the bottom slice of your favoured bread the mayo is on the top. The sandwich is delaminated which means you cannot put them together to form the sandwich as a whole and thus have 2 halves instead of one whole. No matter how you try to assemble the top to bottom parts they simply will not sit together and will always have a degree of seperation.
I need to get out more, really I do!
Barny