New Mobo... but what can I do with this old one now?

[spideyc]

Hi all! I'm new to the site, but have been following similar projects/forums for a while... hoping you are all as helpful as everyone else has been

So I recently had to swap out the mobo on my desktop due to some feline related incidents which left my old one incapacitated...

The question I have now is: can anything be salvaged from this old motherboard (IDE connectors, capacitors, chipsets, etc) which I can, in the future, possibly turn into some other device/connector/gadget? I've been testing out my solder skillz lately and would love to try and build something from scratch... been looking a lot at this site and what you all are about seems right up may alley

What do you guys think? It's not that old of a Mobo, (early AMD dualcore with SLI)... should I try to salvage anything, or just scrap it?

 

[wolborg]

The capacitors are always nice to have.

 

[Prog]

If your cat pissed on it, which is what it sounds like, then a lot of the electronics might be shorted and burned out.

 

[spideyc]

No, no pee... he was just climbing on it to get to the window sil (had it exposed as my case had been dropped by an in-law... story for a different time)... is there any tests I can do on the individual components to make sure they are still in working order?