First post, by kotel
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Hi
Finally decided to post about this MSI MS-7046 VER.1. It was working before I got my hands on it. My attempts to remove the BIOS landed with some caps being knocked off (I hate myself for destroying it, already replaced all I could find). Then I got some parts for it. At first boot it was sometimes displaying a black screen. Then I got an great idea to put an 1.8GHz celeron inside (it doesn't support it, did it because I thought if optiplex 330 supports celerons and C2D's, it will support them too (it was before I knew about searching stuff)). After plugging it in, I was greeted with an burning smell. All caps under the CPU look good, not sure about the VRM since its coolers are soldered onto the board. CPU is fine. After some time I finally got my POST card. Not to my surprise there weren't any codes executed. Poking around the NB I found that some of the caps had 0 ohms (will try to post pics of them later today). Some caps near the P4 connector had 10-8 ohms. Also found out that the NB is getting scorching hot after some seconds and the CPU gets hot (around 60-70 C while measuring by hand) after around 30-40 sec (yes, I know this is a LGA775 P4 3.06GHz, but I don't think it should get that hot). So now the question is, what is at fault? The NB or some other components? Already tried different CPU's (P4 3.06GHz and 2.80GHz, celeron 1.8GHz), PSU's and CMOS batteries.
"All my efforts were in vain...
Let that be my disappointment."
-Kotel