Motherboard has gone to a better place

[Manfordjinsen]

Last night while running some benchmarks I noticed that my computer was running a little hot for my liking (46C under full load) so I decided I'd take off the heatsink and reapply some arctic silver 3. While I was taking out the cpu to clean off the old AC3 I broke a resistor off the motherboard, I just sat there in shock about what I had just done. After a while of flying off the handle I calmed down and thought I could just resolder it back on, to make a long story short I ended up pulling a trace off the board when it got stuck to the soldering iron. There was no going back on this one, it won't detect the cpu at all anymore.


On the brighter side, Now I get to upgrade!!!

I already have an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe and 1GB of OCZ PC3200 ordered and it should be here in a week or so.

[wju425]

There's a easier way to fix it (in case it happened again). Cut the resistor and leave the leads in the board and solder a new resistor on the leads. I fixed many boards that way. Long time since I last did it though.

\o/ Billy