Motherboard damaged, another way?

[Steve248]

Hi,

This is the third Xecutor 3 chip I have done, however, this time it has gone horribly wrong!

Attached is a picture of the damage, basically I could not get the grey wire on the d0 point and left the soldering iron on too long, as a result the solder point came away and I think it could be a big problem.

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to fix this?

Many thanks in advance...

 

[nospmohtkcin]

yeah try looking a couple of posts up to the sticky that says "how to fix a broken trace" wow you really didn't even come close to searching first

 

[Steve248]

Thanks for the reply, I didnt know it was called a 'trace' otherwise I would have had more luck doing a search.

 

[digger40cal]

Hey Steve there will be a couple of ways to fix the broken trace. U will must likely want to look up an alternate d0 point to solder too. Also are u using a 15watt iron? Also use the smallest tip u can find or sharpen that one.

 

[Steve248]

Thanks Digger,

My soldering iron is 20 watts so I will presume this is what has caused the problem.

I have found a usefull tutorial http://www.teamxecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9334

I have oredered a Conductive pen and will give that a go.

Thanks again for your reply.

 

[bigal1]

I used the tutorial for how to use repair a broken trace and it worked perfectly for me but I will add one tool that isn't called out in the tutorial. I bought one of those big magnifying glasses at Radio shack that also has a couple of "helping hands" that hold the object you're looking at under the glass. I used the hands to hold the board while I worked on repairing the trace. I don't think I could have done it without the magnifying glass because there are traces on either side of the D0 trace.

I also had to use an alternate D0 point to attach the grey wire. Anybody know if you just can't solder to the conductive pen stuff?

 

[XCronus]

please dont try soldering to ink......please

most forms of it have to be heat cured before they can even take high temperatures to prevent being melted away...

if you honestly wanted to solder to it, DONT. you would only be able to do this buy recreating the point with another metal

i would suggest fixing the pad and trace via ink/jumper bridge and then using the top d0 point or using one of the terminal ends of the bottom d0 point.


happy soldering