Loose Motherboards #6024

Last Updated on November 13, 2025 by

Introduction

This page provides guidance on how to handle most motherboards during processing, including value checks and putaway procedures.

If you have

• Socket 7 motherboard refers to Socket 7 Motherboard #6023

All motherboards for this category will require a value check; the sold value must be $60 or greater, or the active value must be $120 or greater.

Most motherboards showing bad capacitors will be scrapped. However, still perform a value check on eBay. If the motherboard alone sells for $250 or more, it should be kept.

Item Examples

How to Process

• Check the item and remove asset tags

• Check and remove storage media

  • Some motherboards may have mSATA or m.2 SSD.
  • Industrial PC motherboard: Be aware of the Diskon chip SSD. They look like regular chips, but they are SSDs.

• Check for bad caps.

• Check the CPU socket damage if there is no CPU.

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• Use the brand and model

• Value Check the item

  • If the motherboard CPU socket is socket 7, use the “Socket 7 motherboard” category for the value check.
  • Motherboard scrap value is $60 sold, $120 unsold/active
  • Use the listing with the same condition as the one on hand. 
  • For the motherboard that has a damaged CPU socket, value check for parts.
  • For a desktop motherboard that has a bad cap but is in good physical condition, keep it if it sold for over $250. 
  • For a desktop motherboard that has physical damage, keep it if it sold for over $250.
  • For an OEM server/workstation motherboard that has a bad cap but is in good physical condition, keep it if it sells for over $400. 

• Note

  • If the motherboard is removed from a machine for any reason, include the I/O shield with the motherboard. And leave a note on which machine the motherboard was removed from.
  • Leave a note for any defects.
  • Leave a note for any difference between the listing and the item on hand.

• Extra

  • Do not remove RAM from the motherboard that needs to be tested.
  • A motherboard that has a damaged CPU socket will be scrapped.
  • To identify a PC/104 motherboard, look for its distinctive physical characteristics: a compact size (approximately 3.6″ x 3.8″), a stacking bus connector with 104 pins for the original PC/104 standard (ISA), and mounting holes for standoffs, which allow boards to be stacked like building blocks. 
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  • The CPU module board is similar in size to a PC/104 motherboard. If you come across a similarly sized module with a RAM slot, it is likely a CPU module board.
  • A PC/104 motherboard or CPU module board is sometimes paired with a larger carrier board.

• How to Bag& Tag

• Putaway

  • Keep:
    • Leave it on the pending shelf at your workbench. The Quality Checker will QC them and put them in #1072 eBay Items For Resale
  • Scrap:
    • SBC motherboard: 
      • Scrap: Handle Box on Pending Shelf, #1109 “GOLDFINGER” CARDS
    • Other motherboard
      • #1025 SCRAP: CIRCUIT BOARDS
        • Remove RAM
        • Remove the CPU if it is a ceramic CPU
        • Remove the Slot CPU
        • Remove the CPU heat sink