Is it wise the repair a Motherboard ?

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Can it be considered wise to repair a motherboard that has faults, especially when the repair cost will be a fraction compared to a new one.

Can we expect the motherboard to work fine in the future without faults recurring.
 
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Is the fraction greater than one? I'd be shocked for a repair of a motherboard to be the cost-effective solution - either the technician isn't very good or the motherboard is ludicrously expensive (assuming we're not talking about buying beers for an electrical engineer friend or something).

There is no guarantee whatsoever that the motherboard will work fine in the future without faults recurring. Or that the current problem would even be fixed successfully.
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There are no guarantees for repairs. Since the repair seems cheap enough, i'd say go for it. If it breaks or not it relies on the quality of the repair and a bunch of random things.

The only real question is how old is your board?
 
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Depends on what you are going to repair.
If its just capacitors it shouldn't be a big problem, we also change swollen capacitors.
Have in mind that changing them it doesn't guarantee you no future faults, especially if the motherboard is old.
Swollen capacitors indicate high heat and/or old motherboard.
 
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Its about a 7 year old Asus board. At the moment two faults:

1. Onboard NIC is faulty - the guy said he'll replace it
2. BIOS defaults aside from datetime are lost on every boot- This one didn't work with CMOS reset and battery replacement.
 
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1. The NIC you can replace yourself with a PCI or PCIe x 1 and do it without risk and cheaper.

2. The BIOS you can try resetting overnight and hopefully restore it to factory condition.
a) Remove the AC power cord
b) Remove the battery
c) move the BIOS jumper from 1 & 2 pins to 2 & 3.
d) Press the power button and hold if pressed for a minute
e) wait overnight or from 10 to 12 hours before moving the jumper back to pins 1 & 2, reinstalling the battery and starting the computer.
If this fails, the only possible repair is replacing the BIOS chip but most motherboards don't have removable BIOS chips and replacing a fixed chip is next to impossible... so unless the technician is very skilfull at soldering tiny components, the repair may end up wasting your money.
 
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To be honest it probably isn't worth the hassle.
How come repair would cost you a fraction compared to a new board ? What socket it is ?
It is way too old motherboard.
Fried NIC indicates that it probably got an electric shock.
What internet is supplied in your country ? I mean how is it supplied ? Cables come from outside the building through roofs or ?
Additionally the bios problem may indicate that something other is fried.
Even if you repair all of that, you should look for swollen capacitors, if currently there are none, probably they'll die in a year or two max.
Don't take me wrong, I'm not forcing you to buy a new one, just pointing out what i think is right.
 
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Is the fraction greater than one? I'd be shocked for a repair of a motherboard to be the cost-effective solution - either the technician isn't very good or the motherboard is ludicrously expensive (assuming we're not talking about buying beers for an electrical engineer friend or something).

There is no guarantee whatsoever that the motherboard will work fine in the future without faults recurring. Or that the current problem would even be fixed successfully.
 
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with this faulty i can say not worthed to repair that motherboard
no 1 replace NIC, it's easy , every technician can do this.
but no2 , this is not bios chip faulty , this problem came from chip Southbridge where control bios to save. bios chip is only container to save bios file, but it control from soutbridge.

like problem asus on LGA 775 " Chassis intruded fatal error system halted"
 
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