What can I strip off a dead motherboard before throwing it out?

[propellerhead]

I have a dead Epox 8KHA+. Before throwing it out, is there anything I can pull off it that I might be able to reuse?

1. CMOS battery
2. Jumpers (as if I don't have a bunch of these already in a can)

3. ???

 

[Confused]

Capacitors, you never know when you might get a blown capacitor on a working motherboard and you feel like replacing it 🙂

PCI slots, for making a SFF computer and you need to put a PCI slot on an angle?


Confused

 

[BG4533]

I mounted my dead Mobos, processors and other dead hardware to the wall as a museum/ graveyard/ tribute to all the hold hardware that I have had. It is kind of cool and colorful. Right now I have a dead cyrix board, PII BX board, a Soyo Dragon Plus, and a MSI KT3 Ultra 2 R.

Brian

 

[propellerhead]

Hmmm... there's an idea. I guess I could mount the dead mobo onto the side of the case, or hang it from the ceiling.

 

[dbwillis]

"PCI slots, for making a SFF computer and you need to put a PCI slot on an angle"

I never thought of that,....good idea, thanks!

 

[NEVERwinter]

the mobo chipset.. make a keychain of it. cool.

 

[Megatomic]

Heatsinks from the NB and SB are high on my scavenge list. The NB cooler from my dead ASUS K7V is now providing critical cooling for the SB on my Epox 8RDA+. That puppy gets HOT HOT HOT! :Q

Save the BIOS chip too if it is socketed. You just never know...

 

[Tab]

If your any good a sodering, if you find the same motherboard but say it has a blown Chip. Replace that and it should work fine 😀

 

[BmXStuD]

Originally posted by: BG4533
I mounted my dead Mobos, processors and other dead hardware to the wall as a museum/ graveyard/ tribute to all the hold hardware that I have had. It is kind of cool and colorful. Right now I have a dead cyrix board, PII BX board, a Soyo Dragon Plus, and a MSI KT3 Ultra 2 R.

Brian

:camera:

 

[birddog]

In addition to the jumpers, CMOS batery, Memory clips, I pull BIOS chips off blown MoBo's. A few month's back I was able to send a BIOS chip for a Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 to another Anandtech member who screwed his up with a bad BIOS flash attempt.