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IBM ThinkCentre M50 Mainboard Repair!!
IBM ThinkCentre M50 Mainboard Repair!!
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The amazing IBM ThinkCentre M50 is back on the bench – what a great sight! In our last video on the M50 we discovered some …
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I have a Pentium 4 NetVista desktop in my storage space from just a bit before that name was dropped in favor of ThinkCentre. I wonder if the caps in it have given up the ghost, too. That would be certainly bad news as I have no soldering practice. Will I ever try my hand at it? who knows.
I used to work in electronic assembly in the late 80's up until 92, so I did my share of soldering, but I never could seem to master the solder sucker for desoldering, I usually end up using solder wick. I've built, repaired, or modified every computer that I have ever owned, but never did repairs on an actual motherboard, but I've used my soldering skills to repair a microwave that my neighbor threw out, (bad transformer for the control board, I replaced it), replace power supply caps in my DVD recorder, (it died again, but I digress), and I am planning a full recap on a post war AM/shortwave table radio I own. I uses a lot of wax and paper caps, and looks to be all original, so it needs a full recapping, but it does work, oddly enough, and no hum from the ancient electrolytics in it.
Pleasing looking system
man do i miss ibm machines…. IBM made some of the best computers and had some of my favorite case designs.
Your voice and accent sound just like movie director Guillermo del Toro's, which makes me wonder, are you from Mexico?
Anyway, good video.
I'm anticipating a similar repair on a Socket AM2 system, a Gateway prebuilt. It suffered quite badly from the capacitor plague.
Nice job on the motherboard repair. those desoldering guns are the way to go
Man, I would love to set up a server workstation in my bedroom with old tech like this
Recapped a bunch of boards even ones with nice japanese caps, like United Chemi-Con that were bad. Boards like asus p5p800 and msi k7n2 delta 2 platinum.
Old black computer cases are beautiful! No need for retrobrighting or anything lol
I still need to recap mine, but mine is a smaller form-factor from the one you have here. It's a beautiful computer!
I do love those early 2000s IBM aesthetics. They remind me so much of the old AS/400 mainframes and mini computers. ❤❤❤
Awesome seeing this beauty again and with new caps. Since it has an AGP 4x slot, I recommend the Quadro4 900 XGL (the business equivalent of the GeForce 4 Ti 4600). AGP 8x cards are backwards compatible so you can try the Quadro4 980 XGL if you can find one.
Your cool IBM monitor reminds me of the IBM NetVista 6274 AIO. Now you have a complete IBM ThinkCentre setup. 🙂
just quickly commenting before I watch in full later tonight:
LOVE
THAT
CASE
United Chemi Con (the manufacturer of the KZG series capacitors) is not one of the companies that fell to that capacitor plague issue, because they didn't use that bad stolen formula of electrolyte. It's just a coincidence that this particular series (and KZJ series from them) from them has issues, it uses a very aqueous electrolyte that gives them very good technical properties (very low esr) but which degrades over time, even when motherboards are sitting in the boxes, unused.
Well saved once again!👍👍
nippon chemicon kzg series electrolytic caps…. the worst of the capacitor plague
if it says kzg on the side just pull them and replace
no matter how fine they look
Congrats on a successful mainboard repair TRR! While you probably could get away with just replacing the 'obvious' bulging caps others can go out of spec without obvious signs. Removing possibly suspect caps is a good move if you have the time.
i own a original nutdriver made in usa for the metric system
Great video! The vacuum desoldering guns are sooo much nicer than the old solder suckers.
Love the black design athetic of IBM towers from this era.