As always amazing work. I wanted to thank you because thanks to your videos I was able to restore my old 386 PC motherboard and show my son the games from our childhood. Thank you very much my friend!
It's always an exciting day when you post a new video. I really freaking appreciate how you don't cut corners and really take care to restore these boards with a proper professional eye. Then in top of that, I get tool care advice, hard earned from experience tips, and even some super relaxing music expertly fading in and out as needed. These videos clearly take a ton of time and work, and it shows. Thank you!
I learn so much by watching you, I've got a couple of quirky boards and I'm going to have a really good look at the traces. Your videos are Gold for me.
Congratulations on a successful repair with that board! Most would have thrown it straight into the parts bin, but you, fortunately, have the dedication to persevere through the mess the battery made of that board. Thanks for the look at your work.
Another amazing video of saving a vintage MB from the crap pile. You sir, must have the patience of a saint to remove all those components and sockets and then repair all those tiny traces. Great Job!
I'm loving this stuff. You and others who do board repairs have inspired me to learn a bit about electronics, so I picked up an AM FM radio kit to learn a bit about components and soldering! Can't wait to get started on it next week!
Great job! I now also got a huge amount of old hardware, and most of it was flooded. A small part, including, it seems, a bag of old RAM, I threw away stupidly (my relatives convinced me), and now I regret it, but now I am gradually restoring the rest, and your videos are my inspiration. Perhaps when I take up the restoration of solid computers, I will shoot it on video
Fun timing with vwestlife's video recently about turbo buttons, and this is another example of "turbo on" being the normal, fast state of the computer, and not a slowed down state.
A few years back such extensive battery/capacitor leakage repairs were preserved for rare machines only, like big-box Amigas, 68k Macs and whatnot. Certainly not for your "average" late model 386dx boards. "Just get another one from evilBay/etc." But those times are over. I guess at this point almost everything from that era is worth saving. Edit: Oh, and of course great video, and amazing skills. Loved it. Glad the thing came back to life in the end.
Great work, especially with ISA slots. I was worried that one last break was going to be under reinstalled ISA slot, but you were lucky. :) Also you could go with stacked sockets to accommodate for sockets for small ICs, but glad that it turned out ok. I have a 386 board myself that is waiting for repair, gonna do it some of these days.
Im always amazed of the ability you have to repair all of these! Great job dude, keep on doing it like this! Always amazing to see new videos from you!
Really awesome repair job! Always awesome to see an old 386 board like this come back from the dead. I didn't realize you could use the TL866 for testing ICs like that, very cool! I've only used mine for reading/writing BIOS chips so far.
Congrats resurrecting this board from certain death, love watching your repair videos, great patience and of course skill, thanks very much, always look forward to the next one. 👍👍
Just whow!! I don't care much for old hardware, but I admire your work so much! It's already very satisfying to watch - how fulfilling it must be to actually do this yourself!? Thanks for sharing these videos!
holy cow!!! that was A LOT work but you pulled it off!! I don't have the patience for this type of work anymore, so its fun to watch others do it, and do it well! :D
This is truly an artful demonstration of highly skilled solder work. Absolutely beautiful work. I only hope to be this skilled and be able to make it look this easy one day as well.
The pins on that oscillator look "normal" to me. All of the oscillators I have in my collection have pins that look about twice as long as they need to be if placed in a socket. So that's probably just how they come from the factory, and just need to be trimmed down a couple of mm if that's your thing. 🙂
Great repair, you're an insipriation and I love these quiet, relaxed videos. I'm going to have to pursue my need to build an XP "retro" machine of my own before the year is out!
I nearly fell out of my chair when you resoldered those two ISA slots back into place before testing, you're certainly a lot more confident in your repair work than I would be! Great job on this though, and I love the technique of feeding a fine gauge repair wire directly into the IC's through-hole adjacent to the pin. Many times the vias and through-holes are compromised and this provides a robust and elegant solution for those cases, as long as you have a tiny bit of extra space in the hole.
I really regret trashing two 486 boards with corrosion on them... You have shown me how to do the job properly, I always thought they were not possible to save. I saved everything socketed at least.
Man, your repair technique with a soldering iron is immaculate! I might suggest, though, that you could use female pin headers to make a pseudo-socket for the keyboard controller, and that would give you room to put sockets for the other chips. Stack pin header strips to gain the clearance needed.
Super nice Videos!!! Mega interessant wie Du bei der Fehlersuche und Reparatur vorgehst. Ich hab mir schon den einen oder anderen Tip von dir zu Herzen genommen. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
Great! You really have magical skills to make such dead old boards coming back to life! So amazing! Congrats and thanks for this entertaining video! 👍👍
Very nice video! I learn so much from watching you, and as I've said before the way you repair traces is just a work of art. This particular video will definitely come in handy soon, as I have a 386 board myself that needs new ISA slots. I've been holding off on it, but seeing you do it, it doesn't look too hard honestly, just time-consuming. :) Keep up the wonderful work, I love these videos.
That was a pretty good repair. Well done. I would probably have tested the board before soldering the ISA slots back in though. Anyway, let's hope the board lives a bit longer.
I have an idea for the chips under the keyboard controller. Put the chips under the controller in an IC socket and stack two IC sockets for the controller.
Watching your videos give so much nostalgia when i started with computers like XT and one 286 with JUKO Motherboard 19mhz and 1mb ram, 20mb gb samsung hd
A lot of work, but a nice save! On principle, I hate soldered-on CPUs, but since you have one spare and this board has a place for it, I'd love to see a video of you soldering that processor to this board.
The 386 DX40 was my personal computer of my childhood, while the family 486 was great, the 386 was in my bedroom, and many hours of doom was played on it. :P I even put windows95 on it at one point, and ran mIRC with a dialup internet connection. The conversations in dalnet's or efnet's #teenchat was sometimes so much, the screen would stall and only catch up doing a full repaint. :P good enough! I'd almost like to have a 40mhz 386 in my collection. I wonder if I could find space for one ... hmmm...
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but when your desoldering gun makes that noise, it sounds just like that meme of the girl hitting her back on the bed and going "ahhh!"
After washing circuit boards with soap and water and following rinse down I also use 91% rubbing alcohol, shake/fan motion, and paper towel to absorb any excess then let it sit in a warm area to completely dry. The rubbing alcohol does wonders to remove all water.
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Opens RUclips and there is new necroware video.
This is the start of a great day!
As always amazing work. I wanted to thank you because thanks to your videos I was able to restore my old 386 PC motherboard and show my son the games from our childhood. Thank you very much my friend!
It took quite some while to repair this board, but you can never rush art. And you sir, you are an Artist.
I came for the 386 repair, stayed for the music. Absolutely period accurate music, it makes me feel very melancholic as a child of the 80s.
Agreed, its so chilling i accidentally fell asleep right in my chair.
@@SergeyVolkov me too! Also I guess my brain was thinking: ‘Desoldering all those ISA pins - I can skip that bit.’
It's always an exciting day when you post a new video. I really freaking appreciate how you don't cut corners and really take care to restore these boards with a proper professional eye. Then in top of that, I get tool care advice, hard earned from experience tips, and even some super relaxing music expertly fading in and out as needed.
These videos clearly take a ton of time and work, and it shows. Thank you!
Amazing repair. You are very skilled. Thank you, I really love this series.
GREAT VIDEO. I just rewatch all your old video and boom, new video update. thank you for great content : D
This channel is like a tutorial for me. Using tips from here made repairing much easier.
You truly are the *Necro*mancer of hard*ware*! Great video as always.
Great video
Sleep or Repairathon?
I choose Repairathon!
That looked like such a difficult repair.. so many tiny wires in a tightly packed space... nice to see
I enjoy watching soldering of the jumper wires. They look like they always were there. Every time I try it's a mess. Awsome work and educational.
I learn so much by watching you, I've got a couple of quirky boards and I'm going to have a really good look at the traces. Your videos are Gold for me.
386 Doom! Love it! Nice work on all those traces. Wow!
Incredible attention to detail, hours of work for sure. Excellent video!
You are a true professional. 100X better than 10,000 other retro "enthusiasts" out there on RUclips that can only copy and paste.
You have the patience of a saint. Congratulations on getting it back from the dead.
Congratulations on a successful repair with that board! Most would have thrown it straight into the parts bin, but you, fortunately, have the dedication to persevere through the mess the battery made of that board. Thanks for the look at your work.
Your hard work and persistence paid off. Glad to see this alive again after such heavy damage, great video. I always play the dwarf in Golden Axe too!
Incredible amount of work, knowledge and dedication to save those retro computers! I always learn something new from your amazing videos!
Jeweler's work! Great! Another piece of PC history is rescued by you.
Another amazing video of saving a vintage MB from the crap pile. You sir, must have the patience of a saint to remove all those components and sockets and then repair all those tiny traces. Great Job!
I'm loving this stuff. You and others who do board repairs have inspired me to learn a bit about electronics, so I picked up an AM FM radio kit to learn a bit about components and soldering! Can't wait to get started on it next week!
Very awesome repair. I really enjoy your videos. I grew up during this PC era so it's neat to see these old machines again.
This is not a repair job, this is a labour of love! Great work sir.
Excellent video and great repair, as always! 👍
It's nice to see another dead board back to life..
Your skills are amazing👏 It's a pleasure to watch the board getting fixes step by step.
Great job! I now also got a huge amount of old hardware, and most of it was flooded. A small part, including, it seems, a bag of old RAM, I threw away stupidly (my relatives convinced me), and now I regret it, but now I am gradually restoring the rest, and your videos are my inspiration. Perhaps when I take up the restoration of solid computers, I will shoot it on video
soldering a tqfp 386 would be awesome! I have one from a PLC but I don't have a board to solder it on, that's a shame :(
awesome that someone is bringing old tech back to life instead of just sending it to landfill.
Fun timing with vwestlife's video recently about turbo buttons, and this is another example of "turbo on" being the normal, fast state of the computer, and not a slowed down state.
A few years back such extensive battery/capacitor leakage repairs were preserved for rare machines only, like big-box Amigas, 68k Macs and whatnot. Certainly not for your "average" late model 386dx boards. "Just get another one from evilBay/etc." But those times are over. I guess at this point almost everything from that era is worth saving. Edit: Oh, and of course great video, and amazing skills. Loved it. Glad the thing came back to life in the end.
Beautifully done. It's always the little buggers on the back of the board that catch one out.
Your work is incredibly satisfying. Thank you for saving these motherboards.
Great work, especially with ISA slots. I was worried that one last break was going to be under reinstalled ISA slot, but you were lucky. :) Also you could go with stacked sockets to accommodate for sockets for small ICs, but glad that it turned out ok. I have a 386 board myself that is waiting for repair, gonna do it some of these days.
Im always amazed of the ability you have to repair all of these! Great job dude, keep on doing it like this! Always amazing to see new videos from you!
Amazing. Pure craftsmanship :) your videos are authentic gems. All the best.
Really awesome repair job! Always awesome to see an old 386 board like this come back from the dead. I didn't realize you could use the TL866 for testing ICs like that, very cool! I've only used mine for reading/writing BIOS chips so far.
Congrats resurrecting this board from certain death, love watching your repair videos, great patience and of course skill, thanks very much, always look forward to the next one. 👍👍
Just whow!! I don't care much for old hardware, but I admire your work so much! It's already very satisfying to watch - how fulfilling it must be to actually do this yourself!? Thanks for sharing these videos!
holy cow!!! that was A LOT work but you pulled it off!! I don't have the patience for this type of work anymore, so its fun to watch others do it, and do it well! :D
This is truly an artful demonstration of highly skilled solder work. Absolutely beautiful work. I only hope to be this skilled and be able to make it look this easy one day as well.
The pins on that oscillator look "normal" to me. All of the oscillators I have in my collection have pins that look about twice as long as they need to be if placed in a socket.
So that's probably just how they come from the factory, and just need to be trimmed down a couple of mm if that's your thing. 🙂
Great repair, you're an insipriation and I love these quiet, relaxed videos. I'm going to have to pursue my need to build an XP "retro" machine of my own before the year is out!
Only i can say Phew!! What a work !!!
I nearly fell out of my chair when you resoldered those two ISA slots back into place before testing, you're certainly a lot more confident in your repair work than I would be! Great job on this though, and I love the technique of feeding a fine gauge repair wire directly into the IC's through-hole adjacent to the pin. Many times the vias and through-holes are compromised and this provides a robust and elegant solution for those cases, as long as you have a tiny bit of extra space in the hole.
No risk no fun 😜 But I triple checked the traces of course before I soldered the slots back in place.
Educational, detailed, entertaining. Congrats on another successful repair NW!
Absolutely amazing restoration.
Dude you are still amazing and doing awesome works.
Really nice job sorting that massive damage. Excellent!
Die Reaktion zwischen Säure und Base, Essig und Nickel-Cadmium-"Saft", wie das blubbert. Da lernt man mehr als im Chemieunterricht. ;)
Nicely done. It's soo satisfying to watch you tinning those traces.
the idea that you might have missed a bad trace under one of the ISA slots put some serious suspence to the video! :) Great job!
Man, you're really good with that iron. You're like a surgeon.
Absoluter Hammer, Gratulation!! ☺
Never give up on any hardware. 💪
That dip socket for the keyboard controller with two chips inside it is really neat!
Love to see these Mobo’s being restored. One day you will only fine them in the museum.
Btw great tune by Model P.
I really regret trashing two 486 boards with corrosion on them... You have shown me how to do the job properly, I always thought they were not possible to save. I saved everything socketed at least.
With the damage on this board, I was amazed that you even bothered putting the top 2 ISA slots back on.
Man, your repair technique with a soldering iron is immaculate! I might suggest, though, that you could use female pin headers to make a pseudo-socket for the keyboard controller, and that would give you room to put sockets for the other chips. Stack pin header strips to gain the clearance needed.
iam always super happy if something show on screen after repair. Is so satisfying 🥰
Super nice Videos!!! Mega interessant wie Du bei der Fehlersuche und Reparatur vorgehst. Ich hab mir schon den einen oder anderen Tip von dir zu Herzen genommen. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
Great! You really have magical skills to make such dead old boards coming back to life! So amazing! Congrats and thanks for this entertaining video! 👍👍
That's some masterful 386 necromancy.
His channel is called Necroware for a good reason!
I had this on in the background and the solder vacuum sounded like a rubber chicken being slowly wrung out.
maaap maap map maap maaaaap
LOL!
Very nice video! I learn so much from watching you, and as I've said before the way you repair traces is just a work of art.
This particular video will definitely come in handy soon, as I have a 386 board myself that needs new ISA slots. I've been holding off on it, but seeing you do it, it doesn't look too hard honestly, just time-consuming. :)
Keep up the wonderful work, I love these videos.
Yeah, it's really just a lot of patience. Wish you good luck if your repair!
You have some crazy soldering skills ! Great work on that board, way beyond my current capabilities
Needs just some time and practice ;)
That took a lot of skill and patience. Well done
That was a pretty good repair. Well done. I would probably have tested the board before soldering the ISA slots back in though. Anyway, let's hope the board lives a bit longer.
I recently discovered ur channel... i got amazed by the skill and the dedication, dont stop making such vids !
I have an idea for the chips under the keyboard controller. Put the chips under the controller in an IC socket and stack two IC sockets for the controller.
wow...great job.
Wow, so nice. You are like the board whisperer! Awesome work. Wish I could have your skill.
Wow, very impressive!
Amazing , congratulations on getting the board to work.
Impressive repair. Dealing with traces that small is a lot harder than it may look on camera. :)
Geeze, that was some true necroware. Great repair, nice methods too!
wow your very patient man fixing that such small traces very good job for sure
Watching you soldering with those super thin wires, I think I'm going blind......😱😱😱
No way I can detect such tiny broken circuits!!
That was an insane repair!! My mind was blown
Fantastic! You have a lot of patience!
Jealous of the lack of microscopic components. Really cool repair, always impressive.
Watching your videos give so much nostalgia when i started with computers like XT and one 286 with JUKO Motherboard 19mhz and 1mb ram, 20mb gb samsung hd
such a awesome repair!
Did not expect to see this board working again with that damage.
Marvelous video, thank you very much for all the details and the clever advices! ;-)
Your videos are so nice to watch, keep up the good work!!! :-]
Very impressed with your repairing skills, great video!!!
Love the video! Just one thing: if it has a component soldered through it, it's not a via, it's a hole :) Vias only connect layers.
A lot of work, but a nice save! On principle, I hate soldered-on CPUs, but since you have one spare and this board has a place for it, I'd love to see a video of you soldering that processor to this board.
Thanks for the video.
I loved to see how you repaired it
Great job ,don't beat yourself up over missing traces I was in ore when you said you could repair it without a microscope. . Top Marks to you Sir . .
an impressive amount of work! glad you got it working in the end :D
amazing repair, I am always blown away by your work
The 386 DX40 was my personal computer of my childhood, while the family 486 was great, the 386 was in my bedroom, and many hours of doom was played on it. :P
I even put windows95 on it at one point, and ran mIRC with a dialup internet connection. The conversations in dalnet's or efnet's #teenchat was sometimes so much, the screen would stall and only catch up doing a full repaint. :P good enough!
I'd almost like to have a 40mhz 386 in my collection. I wonder if I could find space for one ... hmmm...
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but when your desoldering gun makes that noise, it sounds just like that meme of the girl hitting her back on the bed and going "ahhh!"
After washing circuit boards with soap and water and following rinse down I also use 91% rubbing alcohol, shake/fan motion, and paper towel to absorb any excess then let it sit in a warm area to completely dry. The rubbing alcohol does wonders to remove all water.
Hach, ich liebe deine Reparatur-Videos. Ich guck sie immer zur Entspannung. :D Richtig tolle Arbeit!
Freut mich, danke!
Used to use a similar rubber thing to rub UV cured solder mask off of my diy pcbs, worked really well.
Wonderful work.