Refurbishing old PC, old P4 motherboard needed.

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Basically salvaged all the still-good components from my old P4 and it seems a shame to just waste them. Got the mini ATX case, 2 sticks of 256mb DDR1 RAM, a 128mb Geforce 4 Leadtek graphics card and a 2ghz P4 processor (not sure which type, but I got the machine at the beginning of 2003).

Had to practically get a new machine last year after that one's motherboard's caps spewed their guts all over. The only issue is getting a board (doesn't have to be *new*) that supports the old P4 chip. I don't really *need* the machine, but as I said, it seems a shame to just waste the stuff that still works and it's just good practice.

Anyone have any idea where I might find such a board?

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9954/p1010011ou9.jpg
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Hey Kaiser,
Where are you located as I can maybe help you out?
Cheers
 
Kaiser said:
If you look at the pic, it's nearly half of them. Also, I'm in the southern suburbs so I'll see what I can do sometime.
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Best to replace all caps anyway. You can get capacitor packs that should fulfil your needs. However, if you're not one for soldering, you could cause more damage than good :(
 
sn3rd said:
Best to replace all caps anyway. You can get capacitor packs that should fulfil your needs. However, if you're not one for soldering, you could cause more damage than good :(
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That would be a nightmare job and far more effort than it's worth. Better to just find a working board and some new drives.
 
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