Topic: Is this a Mobo killer? (Read 649 times)
Mobo slot is probably already fried. Always double check parts before powering rig up.
Just take some flux and a solder tip and clean that up.
yes...those pads are for a capacitor and they are shorted by that solder splash...thats a bad boo boo. Thats why you have to once over these cheap chinese risers.
I had a lousy couple days trying to get a miner running, both ending with non-responsive main board. I was thinking maybe a power supply issue but it worked with another (3rd) main board, with the exception of the peripheral (Molex) output. However the power supply has a single 12v rail and all the other 12V accessories worked.
Then I saw this PCI-e Riser with what looks like a solder blob across the four square traces. Does this look capable of killing a MB?
Here is another riser from the same order.
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