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|| MiNTY ||

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Help Pulled A Trace Up On The 0079fl
« on: October 08, 2007, 11:21:00 AM »
Hi Guys, im proper gutted i bought a brand new elite took it straight apart removed the epoxy soldered my wires but then i wasnt 100% happy so i started messing about and in the process pulled off one of the traces.
Is my 360 fucked ? ive soldered chips in a few ps2 and xbox i cant believe i fucked this up i should never had started playing

Cheers Minty
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neildo

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Help Pulled A Trace Up On The 0079fl
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2007, 03:44:00 PM »
If you're near to me then I could help out by removing the tsop and reading the key using a Willem programmer.

Obviously then you'd have to buy a replacement dvdrom drive though...

PM me if you're near to Glasgow
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Carlitosbaby

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Help Pulled A Trace Up On The 0079fl
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2007, 03:46:00 PM »
QUOTE(|| MiNTY || @ Oct 8 2007, 01:21 PM) *

Hi Guys, im proper gutted i bought a brand new elite took it straight apart removed the epoxy soldered my wires but then i wasnt 100% happy so i started messing about and in the process pulled off one of the traces.
Is my 360 fucked ? ive soldered chips in a few ps2 and xbox i cant believe i fucked this up i should never had started playing

Cheers Minty


depends on the trace does the drive still work with originals?
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Kirby64

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Help Pulled A Trace Up On The 0079fl
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2007, 10:31:00 PM »
Although you probably shouldn't really be near a soldering iron if you ripped a trace, why not just repair said trace you ripped? RDC has a nice tutorial on repairing broken traces on Xbox controllers, the same crap applies to DVD drives.

Linky

Anyone with a bit of skill should be able to repair the trace w/o much issue. Just scrap back the trace that was lifted, solder a 30 gauge wire to it, then solder the other end to the other side of the lifted trace.
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Exobex

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Help Pulled A Trace Up On The 0079fl
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2007, 03:29:00 PM »
As far as I can tell the traces on the 79FL's TSOP bus all terminate at the point you'd solder a socket to, with the exception of a couple which go on to reach the round test pads.  Just make sure you've got no shorted traces and your drive should boot.
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