Uhhh, yeah. What Roger said.

A new motherboard isn't really all that expensive ($100--$150) and by the time you factor in the amount of time and expense it will take you to find and purchase the replacement parts, install them, then do it all over again when they blow up again because you fixed only the symptoms and not the root cause of the problem....

I would never even consider trying to repair a blown motherboard -- there are so many thousands of things that could be wrong that without very sophisticated test equipment, you'll never figure it out.

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