- Oct 1, 2014
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I have a Biostar GF5070-M7 motherboard that first refused to boot unless not in dual-channel, yet worked with two different sticks for a while. When I say "worked" I mean it does it's job except it freezes every hour or so ever since, but I am still posting from it now. Then after a while it stopped booting unless I took out one of the sticks. Then a few weeks later I had to remove the external video-card to get it working... and today I lost sound.
As far as I understand the first things that had issues had to do with the northbridge and the newest which is sound is the south - with lan and sata still working for now.
Somehow something gradually eats away at my mobo... north to sound... and maybe someone might be able to tell me what exactly could be culprit or where to look for answers. I could get a replacement but I'd rather get my hands dirty with solder if possible. Any ideas ?
edit: it's not the PSU. and I can't see swolen capacitors either.
update: it seems that the northbridge and southbridge are one and the same chip for this board.
As far as I understand the first things that had issues had to do with the northbridge and the newest which is sound is the south - with lan and sata still working for now.
Somehow something gradually eats away at my mobo... north to sound... and maybe someone might be able to tell me what exactly could be culprit or where to look for answers. I could get a replacement but I'd rather get my hands dirty with solder if possible. Any ideas ?
edit: it's not the PSU. and I can't see swolen capacitors either.
update: it seems that the northbridge and southbridge are one and the same chip for this board.
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