Messed up my QSB's, need some advise?

[bailzey]

So I messed up the QSB's, now im resorting to soldering the wires directly to the board with the diodes attatched and using the pin headers. Cant understand why my solder would not stick to the mobo though. I used a brand new soldering iron tip, made sure to tin the soldering iron, cleaned the points with rubbing alcohol and applied flux to the points and the QSB's, but some points the solder was sticking to the iron instead and wouldnt stick to the mobo. I do have a little experience in soldering and still cannot understand why this happened. I've removed the QSB's now and by the looks of them they are no good for anything so they have gone in the bin. I've managed to clean up the mobo and it all looks ok no damaged tracks or anything. I have ordered some desolder braid to remove any excess solder left on the points and and also to fit the pin headers.

Is there any tips that anybody could give me in order to assure that my solder will stick to the mobo when i try to solder the wires to it?

Also do I have to solder in the pin headers or can I get away with just slotting them in/ hold them in place when reading/writing the nand?

 

[tony1160]

dont hold the iron on your m/board for to long, maybe try on a different pcb first

 

[bailzey]

Thanks, I'm going to give it another go as soon as I get my desolder braid which could take a while as it looks like I'm getting snowed in . I will report back here when I've given it another go hopefully with good news as I'm really eager to jtag my xbox.

 

[bailzey]

Tried soldering the wires directly to the motherboard and was getting the error "could not detect a flash controller" so I removed them all and resoldered but still the same error? Spent all day trying to get it to work but no joy . I know this probably means my soldering is not so good or the traces have been burnt out but all traces are fine and although the soldering wasnt immaculate the connections were all okay they did'nt look like something the dog had chewed up and spat out unlike some of the failed attempts I've seen on the net, none were bridged or anything and would not come off when I tugged them. I've removed the wires now so I'm gonna clean up the points with some desolder braid and try the pin headers so I'm praying that it will work.