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Ion lock mechanism
lilshawn:
i'll let you know now, the purple ECS boards used in the silver ION's where absolute TRASH.
the caps powering the northbridge crap out and the ripple casues the northbridge to overheat. you can change out the caps, but the northbridge is never the same again.
sometimes you can find a decent replacement on ebay used. look for an Asus A7NBX-VM. it's a little better designed and lasts much longer than the ECS board. NOTE: you will have to modify the IO board mounting plate to clear the power connector because it's in a weird place on the board.
if you really feel like going crazy with changing the boards for something MUCH better, find some used intel D945GCLF (or GCLF2) you'll need to find a way to mount everything in there because this board is an ITX board not ATX. this is the newest board that was used in the RX machines. as such, you will have to run at least ION system version 2009 or later. for the board to work.
otsep:
I'll start a clean thread for my 2013 issues. Thanks.
mahkeymike:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on June 09, 2016, 04:49:19 pm ---i'll let you know now, the purple ECS boards used in the silver ION's where absolute TRASH.
the caps powering the northbridge crap out and the ripple casues the northbridge to overheat. you can change out the caps, but the northbridge is never the same again.
sometimes you can find a decent replacement on ebay used. look for an Asus A7NBX-VM. it's a little better designed and lasts much longer than the ECS board. NOTE: you will have to modify the IO board mounting plate to clear the power connector because it's in a weird place on the board.
if you really feel like going crazy with changing the boards for something MUCH better, find some used intel D945GCLF (or GCLF2) you'll need to find a way to mount everything in there because this board is an ITX board not ATX. this is the newest board that was used in the RX machines. as such, you will have to run at least ION system version 2009 or later. for the board to work.
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Hate to be that guy, but its 2009.5 or later. ;D
ed12:
ditch the ecs board
go with intel
ed
otsep:
--- Quote from: ed12 on June 09, 2016, 08:57:20 pm ---ditch the ecs board
go with intel
ed
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I'd love to, but one is a 2007 & the other is a 2013. Maybe if I can find a relatively inexpensive software update for the 2007, I'll do both.
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