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Old Apr 17, 2010, 09:51 PM   #1
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ITS ALIVE!: DFI 790FX has been saved.

Ok i bought a DFI 790FX board from T77 that was dead. My plan was to figure out what was wrong with it and fix it the best i could. If i couldnt fix it i was gonna use it as a soldering experiment. Well i first took out the Cmos Battery when i got the board and left it out for 24 hours. I then checked the board in a bright light environment to see if there was a burnt place which there wassnt so when i went to replace the CMOS batter i noticed some corrosion on the contacts of the + side of the battery. I then took a sanding block and smoothed it out back down to the metal and reinstalled. Well to my surprise the board booted first time with a 8400GS and 1 stick of 2gb DDR2-800!!! im so excited! THANKS T77!!!

This first picture you cannot see the screen well but it was on the post screen.



This second picture you i turned the monitor around so you can see the post screen!

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Old Apr 17, 2010, 09:54 PM   #2
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Nice..

LOL just a little corrosion and all is well
give it a few runs and report back
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lol, fun fun! I got a good deal off of that dead board too.. lol. 2x Heatsinks for the NB/SB.
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Old Apr 17, 2010, 09:58 PM   #4
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lol, fun fun! I got a good deal off of that dead board too.. lol. 2x Heatsinks for the NB/SB.
yea thats one thing that i need to do is get some stock heatsinks from someone cause i DO NOT want to run this board without them. IMMA create a WTB thread for some NB/SB heatsinks off random dead motherboards to see if i can find some that will work on it. I think i have a 40mm or smalled fan some were the will probly fit on a stock heatsink.
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Old Apr 17, 2010, 09:58 PM   #5
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Way to go!
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Old Apr 17, 2010, 10:00 PM   #6
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yea thats one thing that i need to do is get some stock heatsinks from someone cause i DO NOT want to run this board without them. IMMA create a WTB thread for some NB/SB heatsinks off random dead motherboards to see if i can find some that will work on it. I think i have a 40mm or smalled fan some were the will probly fit on a stock heatsink.
Well, I can get you a SB HS, I doubt the NB HS on the 790GX-M2RS will work...
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Old Apr 17, 2010, 10:04 PM   #7
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Nice fix. I like getting stuff thats broke and trying to figure it out. If it dont work out, its used as target practice.
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HOLY CRAP! You got it working! Well then you just got yourself a sweeeet deal! After shipping costs I only got 5 bucks from it Congrats brandon! Enjoy the board and overclock the Athlon X2 to 4.0 I would recommend getting good heatsinks because this chipset on that DFI gets pretty toasty.
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HOLY CRAP! You got it working! Well then you just got yourself a sweeeet deal! Adter shipping costs I only got 5 bucks from it Congrats brandon! Enjoy the board and overclock the Athlon X2 to 4.0 I would recommend getting good heatsinks because this chipset on that DFI gets pretty toasty.
Thanks T77!!! i found a old S478 board in my closet that had a heatsink but it didnt have the bolt holes so i put some tim in it and used a stiff plastic coated aluminum wire to hold it down. Im going to boot it again and go into the bios to see what the NB temps are like.
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I did manage to find some random heatsinks after I shipped the board, I could send them to you with some thermal tape because them don't have pins? Is Flyordie going to give you the SB cooler?
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I did manage to find some random heatsinks after I shipped the board, I could send them to you with some thermal tape because them don't have pins? Is Flyordie going to give you the SB cooler?
If he wants the one off my 790GX I can ship it to him when I get to the post office.
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I did manage to find some random heatsinks after I shipped the board, I could send them to you with some thermal tape because them don't have pins? Is Flyordie going to give you the SB cooler?
well i would like to get two from 1 person instead of having to pay to ship from diffrent people but i will take what i can get.

can you gimme a quick picture of what those random heatsinks look like? THANKS T77!
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Old Apr 17, 2010, 11:15 PM   #13
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nice! usually its silly things like this that hapen
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Wish I could fix my old DFI board as easily as this, mine just no worky :'(
Well done on getting such a great deal, and managing to fix something yourself. Always a great feeling.
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Old Apr 18, 2010, 12:41 AM   #15
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Way to go!
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well i would like to get two from 1 person instead of having to pay to ship from diffrent people but i will take what i can get.

can you gimme a quick picture of what those random heatsinks look like? THANKS T77!
This is embarrassing.....but I lost them again
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I just got my DFI X38 board back from RMA the other day. It was a open box newegg item long out of warranty but as usual DFI repaired it for the cost of shipping it to them. Ripper3 Might try emailing Susana (susana@dfiweb.com).
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must feel good :0) have fun with it
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Looks like I'll be buying a ton of dead boards.

J/K, grats Brandon!
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Thanks guys! im happy too! i was looking on the DFI forums and this is one of there boards that will be updated to use 6 core CPUs so im def planning on getting on of those for it when i can afford it. I looked at some heatsinks on ebay and they were ok so if i cannot find any here in the forums i might get two from there.
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Alright! i robbed the heatsinks off my MSI G33M motherboard but they wernt the right sizes so i got them held on with plastic coated wire with some good tim under them until i can get some that fit right. I also put it in a case with my Evercool Transformer 4 heatsink with a sorta push/pull system. overall it runs good (besides the make shift heatsinks). I also did some light overclocking on stock voltage and got it running 3.2ghz linx stable for 30 minutes (i know not long enough but im installing drivers).





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HAHA! I told you it would be the CMOS battery!
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HAHA! I told you it would be the CMOS battery!
yea im glad i looking at it when i did! i ran the PC all night with it clocked at 3.2ghz downloading some torrents and was working good this morning so im impressed
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Lol wow thats exactly what I thought, too.
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