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Eric Zhivalyuk
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Southbridge Chipset Fried on my Ubuntu Server

Category: Computers & Internet - Hardware - Laptops, Servers, Peripherals, Etc. Tags: sad , linux , burnt , fried , southbridge , motherboard , chipset , server , ubuntu

Thursday July 31st, 2008

Yeah... it happened out of no where.. Machine wouldn't start, and had an orange power light instead of green, opened the case, removed and re-placed some parts to guess and check. Then examined the motherboard, the outcome is below... This was 1 of the 2 dells that I have repaired back in April this year... Made a blog post about it after replacing the several motherboard capacitors (http://eric.artician.com/blog/2008/04/Replacing-Motherboard-Capacitors/) Anyway, I inserted custom fans into these cases to help with the overheating issue. The ubuntu machine was the one which had stronger airflow than the other case, and didn't seem to do much since the Southbridge Chipset had now fried. Take a look at the pictures below...you will see a white hole in the chipset, I'm assuming this was the reason for the machine no longer booting up. Oh well....

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Dang, that's got to suck!

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