View Full Version : Xtreme Repair
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 05:47 PM
Hey, I just got my first known stick of bh5 and I broke it. This stick of mushkin 3200 256 was purchased from Peen, a friend and XS member for 20 bucks. The damage happened when I was removing the heat spreader. The part (I have no idea what it is) was scraped off by the heat spreader when it came loose and was caught by the thermal tape. What luck..
What else to do but put it back on!
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 05:49 PM
I think it goes here.:D
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 05:51 PM
The tools In pictures
Its fixed i bet :slobber: :) yeah, im physchic or maybe just physcho!
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 05:53 PM
I purchased this stuff at Fry's for this job and others.
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 05:57 PM
Originally posted by Peen
Its fixed i bet :slobber: :) yeah, im physchic or maybe just physcho! maybe both.
this part is about the size of a coffee ground> I figured if I can see it I can fix it. This is a 3x lens on a 3x lens
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 05:59 PM
Xtreme tweezers:D
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 06:01 PM
Showing relative size, this part fits nicely in the Presidents eye
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 06:07 PM
After about five cups of coffee and an hour of getting used to looking at it , five minutes with the iron on and 55 minutes of photos it was a done deed.
0.2mm tip btw.
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 06:09 PM
Another angle , not pretty but it worked flawlessly!
Karnivore
03-15-2004, 06:16 PM
Good Job, Nice to have decent tools :thumbsup:
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 06:22 PM
I have seen a few posts where folks were freaking out because they have knocked parts off their equipment and been afraid to put an iron to thier pcb. Well ,what do you have to lose? I recently vmodded my 5900 and repaired this ram successfully with little to no soldering experience. I say go for it;)
Originally posted by jamaljaco
not pretty .........
haha yeah right thats perfect!
sjohnson
03-15-2004, 06:32 PM
Very good work. Agree with using magnification, even with good eyes seeing a blow-up is a boon. :toast:
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 06:34 PM
Originally posted by Karnivore
Good Job, Nice to have decent tools :thumbsup: Thanks and yes it is. I believe in having the right tools for the job.It did seem rather silly buying a hundred dollars worth of tools to repair a 20 dollar stick of ram But it's Bh5 man! Also next time I do something stupid I'll be ready.:D
jamaljaco
03-15-2004, 06:43 PM
Originally posted by sjohnson
Very good work. Agree with using magnification, even with good eyes seeing a blow-up is a boon. :toast: So true. Even with my excellent vision I spent an hour practicing holding the part with the tweezers and touching the soldering tip to it while looking at it through the lenses.
all this cuz of that stupid retention thingy ma bobber on the heatspreader :banana:
GeekGoddess
03-15-2004, 08:35 PM
Awesome Job on it!! :) :D:D
kommando
03-16-2004, 12:05 AM
Whoa sickness, nice repair!!
Originally posted by jamaljaco
Hey, I just got my first known stick of bh5 and I broke it. This stick of mushkin 3200 256 was purchased from Peen, a friend and XS member for 20 bucks. The damage happened when I was removing the heat spreader. The part (I have no idea what it is) was scraped off by the heat spreader when it came loose and was caught by the thermal tape. What luck..
What else to do but put it back on!
btw, why does it say a-data on the pcb? wasn't it mushkin?
Mushkin didnt make it. A-Data made that one when I bought it I guess. It had a nice purple heatspreader on it too thats now destroyed lol
DjTonic
03-16-2004, 06:29 AM
Good work :toast:
Originally posted by Peen
Mushkin didnt make it. A-Data made that one when I bought it I guess. It had a nice purple heatspreader on it too thats now destroyed lol
ah, so jamal was incorrect in saying it was mushkin pc3200?
just want to clear up some confusion, because im looking into purchasing some adata sticks
... it HAD Mushkin Heatspreaders and everything. A-Data made the sticks though. Its Mushkin PC3200
ah cool
thanks
and great repair!
Nice work! :up:
Just to let you know, I knocked off the whole top row, about 20 or 30, of those components from my Corsair XMS PC3502v1.1. The stick works absolutely fine without them. ;)
kommando
03-17-2004, 03:05 AM
Originally posted by Peen
... it HAD Mushkin Heatspreaders and everything. A-Data made the sticks though. Its Mushkin PC3200
Cool was saying myself "wtf adata ram must be some mistake, meh i can't be bothered asking someone else do it" :D
STEvil
03-18-2004, 01:11 PM
Its easier to repair those with fat tweezers ;)
Just squeeze it to the PCB with the tweezers with only one side exposed and solder it, then swap the tweezers over to the finished side and do the other side.
I remember using my 100w iron to do the hardmod to my 9500np.. same size deal but cant hold it in place as easily, and no magnification! ;)
dobbz
04-05-2004, 05:54 PM
heh this reminds me of the time i pried off the spreaders on my BH5 sticks and mashed up the solder on the pins of one of the chips. the solder was pretty soft so i used a needle to kinda spread some back onto four of the pins. i did that fix in total desperation and i had no hope at all for it, but it worked perfectly. i was so happy i was beatin my chest and roaring and stuff. :p:
Hell-Fire
04-08-2004, 11:29 PM
Sweet work my man.
megatron
04-09-2004, 04:59 AM
I ripped a Vdd chip apart for my epox 8rda+. Bought another and a 0.5mm tip for soldering irion and fixed it. Hehe.;)
freecableguy
04-10-2004, 07:24 PM
It was a capacitor that you replaced.
Tyberius
04-10-2004, 07:44 PM
Originally posted by Jeff
Nice work! :up:
Just to let you know, I knocked off the whole top row, about 20 or 30, of those components from my Corsair XMS PC3502v1.1. The stick works absolutely fine without them. ;)
WTF??? You gotta be kidding man....hehe best repair job I've ever seen was some guy knockin off one of those tiny ass resistors that surround the GPU core of a ATi card. You know, the ones that are actually on the GPU..near the core itself. That was awesome, but very nice work nonetheless