So, I was disassembling the 745 to see if I could somehow retrofit a different board in there and once the board was out, I noticed that there was a solder point at a joint that had no capacitor – eureka! I had replaced all the bad caps, but I didn’t think to see if there were any missing caps!
The problem I had now was that I threw the old GX260 board I took good caps from into the garbage over a week ago. I went into the basement and rummaged through a few old boards and came across one that went in an old Dimension 8200. I needed a capacitor for C442, which was a 6.3V 2200μF, which were plentiful on the GX260 board, but didn’t exist on this 8200. However, it did have a 16V 2200μF and that would be good enough…as long as it fit.
Long story short, transplant was a success. I just finished installing Win7 Pro x86 on there and will get it completed tomorrow to replace my son’s age old GX280. Good times.
Update:
Well, I was hoping the rear fan alert I was getting was something simple, but it’s not…I’m actually missing the rear fan. For some reason, I thought there was some sort of termination plug for that fan port, but there is not. I considered going through my box of junk for a 4-pin fan that I could maybe fit in there, but I found one on eBay for $9.99. I didn’t want to spend anything on this system, but it’s actually pretty nice and considering their capacitor issues due to heat, I’d rather not do without that fan…even if it obviously doesn’t work well. Something is better than nothing.
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