Motherboard Repair

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I have an Asus P8Z77-V Premium motherboard on which the SATA 6Gb and Marvel 9200 are not working. ATM I am having to run the SATA 3Gb in IDE mode in my bios and the motherboard on board LED code shows an error. I cannot remember the code and it is underneath the desk and difficult to remove. It works but not in the AHCI mode and Intel drivers do not install.

This occurred when I swapped a faulty Corsair HX520 PSU which worked but caused resume problems. I swapped it for a working PSU but a fan controller sensor cable pulled out of the sensor on the southbridge and without me realising went under the edge of the motherboard shorting the SATA connectors.

I am hoping to get it fixed but it is outside warranty so I need to find a place that has the necessary equipment to fix something like this. Part availability could be a problem because the parts are no longer made.

If you have any tips on what to look for in a repair company such as what equipment they would need or companies that might be able to do it then I would appreciate any recommendations

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Buy another motherboard. Whilst it could be fixed the costs are going to be quite eye watering costing more than replacing the board. It needs someone who can work with SMDs and can fault find to component level which puts what you're wanting to do is outside the realms of 99.9999% of PC shops and repairers and is more within the realm of an electronics repair company who are almost non-existent today.

Where I worked we had the expertise to do such work but you would be looking at a bill of well over £100 and you can buy new Socket 1155 motherboards for around half that.

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Possibly cheaper to buy a new sata card, and hardwire the fan on southbridge to maximum. A new board is better.

Possible a second hand board of the exact same type can be obtained from ebay for the cost close to a sata card?????

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The problem with buying a SATA card is that it is not built in and support might not be so good. Also I cannot use anything other than IDE for SATA with the remaining working built in SATA connections therefore they are not working as well as they could be as no AHCI is available.

I have had a quick look on ebay and none of the boards come close to my current mobo. Mine is almost perfect for my needs, the only thing that I dislike is the on board tiny 32GB SSD drive which uses up a 3Gb SATA connection. I do have a converter which converts that to a regular SATA connection which gets around that.


Dual lan, 6 USB 3.1, 6x6Gb SATA, 4x3Gb SATA among other things.

None of the boards commonly available have these features with many only having 1 lan connection which I use for my internet.

Many of the less featured boards are still fairly expensive and I think that it might be possible to get this board fixed for a similar sort of price. Asus are utterly useless BTW.

The closest that I have found is an Asus P8Z77 WS with no IO shield but that uses a Marvel 91xx SATA (2 SATA) rather than the 92xx (4) on mine. They want £160 for that! I think that a repair should cost less than that for a better fully working mobo. Some are asking £200-£300 for a few of the mobos on ebay. Ridiculous prices for such old tech IMO. I cannot afford to rebuild with new memory, cpu, mobo, heatsink etc.

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think you mboard is on for £100 + postage

The external sata controller will probably have its own bios and ahci, independent from the mboard bios, just make sure you get a newer version

cex once did component level repairs. The word i'd use to google is REBALLING to fix motherboards