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I bought my previous motherboard refurb, and found there was a capacitor barely hanging on near the first PCIe slot—someone had probably yanked a GPU and slamme
by geerlingguy 4y ago
I bought my previous motherboard refurb, and found there was a capacitor barely hanging on near the first PCIe slot—someone had probably yanked a GPU and slammed it into that spot (there was also a little damage on the retention clip still).
After a few weeks the 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port stopped working, until I resoldered that capacitor.
Then a few months later it stopped working again, as one of the motherboard traces was also damaged and I couldn't repair it. Had to use a separate network card from that point on.
I didn't return the motherboard because of the hassle... it wasn't the end of the world using a different NIC.