Iwill KA266-R Ver 1.3

The Iwill KA266-R is a PC motherboard from 2001 for AMD socket A CPUs and has hardware IDE RAID with 3 DDR 266/200 slots, 4 IDE channels, 5 PCI slots, 4.1 channel integrated sound (C3DX HSP56), and an AGP slot.

Bulging capacitors around PCI slots
Aluminum electrolytics around the PCI slots are starting to bulge from age and all electrolytics on this board are the same brand and will probably do the same.

Causes

 * Age
 * Cap Chemistry
 * Heat around PCI card area & CPU

Solutions

 * Replace all electrolytic caps

Disassembly Notes

 * Handle PCB by edges to avoid stressing BGA devices or touching static sensitive devices
 * Use ESD safe equipment
 * This PCB is a high density multi-layer PCB with a high thermal mass, some soldering irons may struggle

Iwill KA266-R Motherboard
Ver 1.3

Iwill KA266-R Motherboard
Ver 1.3

Kits

 * Digikey BOM: Digikey

Related Links

 * Driver CD and RAID Floppies with manual PDFs