Topic: This Is The Worst Damage I've Yet To See (Read 138 times)

gamerguy999 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 13, 2004, 07:47:00 AM »

Sorry, thats a little too high of a price for me. Oh and by the way, It is nowhere near as damaged as the one that you posted, there are just 1-2 traces broken near the underside of the lpc.

networkBoy · « **Reply #16 on:** October 13, 2004, 08:05:00 AM »

I think A@ron does simple trace repairs really cheap.

I should have clarified: the $40 includes the mod install and covers nearly all rebuild needs. I've found it to be quite competitive locally.
-nB

networkBoy · « **Reply #17 on:** October 13, 2004, 09:56:00 AM »

Not that it would be hard to miss some damage on a board this bad . . .

As it turns out, near the pads for the second memory chip on the top side of the board there is a cap ripped off as well. Chrono pointed this out as he was the one who sold me this POS (He's a good guy though, I knew the board was "unbelievably bad" before I bought it).

Ill be taking another pic and updating the website in the next day or two.
-nB

CHRONOSTORM · « **Reply #18 on:** October 13, 2004, 10:36:00 AM »

networkBoy · « **Reply #19 on:** October 13, 2004, 02:27:00 PM »

Page updated to reflect a component I missed. Pics will be up later.
-nB

bbse21 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 13, 2004, 02:45:00 PM »

Speaking of motherboards can i use a v1.1 mobo with a v1.0 power supply

networkBoy · « **Reply #21 on:** October 13, 2004, 03:11:00 PM »

Exobex · « **Reply #22 on:** October 13, 2004, 03:37:00 PM »

CHRONOSTORM · « **Reply #23 on:** October 13, 2004, 08:05:00 PM »

Perplexer · « **Reply #24 on:** October 13, 2004, 08:15:00 PM »

I should've taken some pictures! My buddy would come over somtimes, and I'd say, "wait, wait, you HAVE TO SEE this one!! What the FUCK were they thinking?"

One with the entire LPC, top and bottom D0 TOTALLY trashed, it looked like someone had used acid-core solder and a 100-watt soldering gun. I mean, the PCB had been eaten into. This board was a loss, no way to get it going.

A motherboard entirely covered in an oily film, like it had taken a ride on the conveyor at the Coca-Cola bottling plant, then sprayed with WD-40. I bathed it in alcohol and distilled water, replaced the TSOP, and it served a tour of duty as my test/config motherboard for almost a year. R.I.P.!

My favorite: One with MULTIPLE burned/broken traces on the top and underside of the board, some nowhere NEAR the LPC and D0 points. Also three missing caps and three missing resistors. I repaired FIVE traces on bottom, THREE on top, made FIVE repairs on the LPC, and replaced the three resistors and three caps, and got it going. Donated it to a friend (a PS2 owner in need).

Too many to count: Boards with resistors and caps that had been knocked off, and mountains of solder applied in their place. Which obviously (to us) didn't work. Amazingly, most of these still worked when the correct component was replaced.

A@ron · « **Reply #25 on:** October 13, 2004, 09:01:00 PM »

I've seen my share of horror stories, most related to ram upgrades and plain user incompetence. nB the underside trace labeled in yellow as a missing component is a bridge point for a tsop flash I believe. You can also see the top set is destroyed so I would guess either a failed tsop flash so they attempted a LPC chip or visa versa.

networkBoy · « **Reply #26 on:** October 14, 2004, 07:37:00 AM »

also, doesn't take away from the "some shouldn't solder" portion of the message

-nB

bleugh · « **Reply #27 on:** October 14, 2004, 07:46:00 AM »

I tryes ter soldur but culdnat get it to wurk

user posted image

i slipped and broke sum chips off and then they wuld not fit back on,

do the xbox need them to wurk?, do they matter?

help

/end sarcasm

networkBoy · « **Reply #28 on:** October 14, 2004, 09:04:00 AM »

networkBoy · « **Reply #29 on:** October 15, 2004, 09:16:00 AM »

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