Firstly I am no electrician of any sort & I hardly ever solder I do a few bits here and there (mainly easy things)
With xbox's I have soldered new capacitors to the board and have soldered Nand-X QSB's and Nand-X wire (cut pin header off and soldered directly to board to read/write Nand) method... That's about it
I have JTAG'd two xbox's my first one I assumed had bad soldering done to it by me with the quick solder boards on my Xenon motherboard and then found out later my soldering was perfectly fine, and ended up re-soldering for no reason and then ruining three of the solder points on my xbox itself (aswell as the some of the points on the QSB's).
If I had got off my arse and gone to my garage and fished out my Multi-Meter and then checked what my soldering was like I would have been able to void damaging anything by heating the board too much etc.
SO AS I HAVE NOTICED ON THE FORUM MANY PEOPLE ARE TOLD THERE SOLDERING IS BAD
To help you people I am going to make a little guide as good as I can so you guys can avoid re-soldering if possible.
Sorry some of the pictures are blurry I took them in a bad lighted room.
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1) First start with getting your multi-meter out and plugging it in like so
2) Then turn it on and set it to ohms like so the symbol is Ω and make sure the display reads something like 1 (a constant number)
3) To make sure you have you multi-meter set correctly touch both prongs together like so and the display should change to a constant zero
Now to check your soldering is good I use two methods
First Checking method
1) Put one prong on the underside of your board on the solder point you want to check touching the solder
2) Put the other prong touching on either the: corresponding solder-able point on the nand-x quick solder board OR on the ALT point of the quick solder board
3) If all is good the display on the multi-meter should be zero
Second Checking Method - this method many is easier to check but many of the more experienced people on this forum will probably disagree against:
1) Put one prong (doesn't matter which one) so that it is touching part of the metal on the xbox's motherboard I have chosen one of the screw holes close to the solder point I want to check
2) Hold the other prong on the point of the Quick Solder Board that you want to check like so
3) And if your you have a good soldered point a low number should show like below
(it will be above zero because there is some resistance from "prong one" to "prong two" unlike with the first checking method which has the prongs touch the needed points so there is no resistance - zero displayed)
With xbox's I have soldered new capacitors to the board and have soldered Nand-X QSB's and Nand-X wire (cut pin header off and soldered directly to board to read/write Nand) method... That's about it
I have JTAG'd two xbox's my first one I assumed had bad soldering done to it by me with the quick solder boards on my Xenon motherboard and then found out later my soldering was perfectly fine, and ended up re-soldering for no reason and then ruining three of the solder points on my xbox itself (aswell as the some of the points on the QSB's).
If I had got off my arse and gone to my garage and fished out my Multi-Meter and then checked what my soldering was like I would have been able to void damaging anything by heating the board too much etc.
SO AS I HAVE NOTICED ON THE FORUM MANY PEOPLE ARE TOLD THERE SOLDERING IS BAD
To help you people I am going to make a little guide as good as I can so you guys can avoid re-soldering if possible.
Sorry some of the pictures are blurry I took them in a bad lighted room.
________________________________________________________
1) First start with getting your multi-meter out and plugging it in like so
2) Then turn it on and set it to ohms like so the symbol is Ω and make sure the display reads something like 1 (a constant number)
3) To make sure you have you multi-meter set correctly touch both prongs together like so and the display should change to a constant zero
Now to check your soldering is good I use two methods
First Checking method
1) Put one prong on the underside of your board on the solder point you want to check touching the solder
2) Put the other prong touching on either the: corresponding solder-able point on the nand-x quick solder board OR on the ALT point of the quick solder board
3) If all is good the display on the multi-meter should be zero
Second Checking Method - this method many is easier to check but many of the more experienced people on this forum will probably disagree against:
1) Put one prong (doesn't matter which one) so that it is touching part of the metal on the xbox's motherboard I have chosen one of the screw holes close to the solder point I want to check
2) Hold the other prong on the point of the Quick Solder Board that you want to check like so
3) And if your you have a good soldered point a low number should show like below
(it will be above zero because there is some resistance from "prong one" to "prong two" unlike with the first checking method which has the prongs touch the needed points so there is no resistance - zero displayed)
