Iwill KA266-R Ver 1.3

This page is for the Iwill KA266-R AMD motherboard version 1.3. This Board was made in 2001 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.

Problems Encountered
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

Basic PCB Name
If parts are not available or different selection is preferred, you can use the values in the Original Parts section to perform a parametric search.

Kits

 * Digikey BOM: https://www.digikey.com/

Related Links

 * Driver CD and RAID Floppies with manual PDFs